bonneting

Verb

bonnet (third-person singular simple present bonnets, present participle bonneting or bonnetting, simple past and past participle bonneted or bonnetted)

1. (transitive) To put a bonnet on.
2. (obsolete) To take off the bonnet or cap as a mark of respect; to uncover.
   • Hee hath deſerued worthily of his Countrey, and his aſſent is not by ſuch eaſie degrees as thoſe, who hauing beene ſupple and courteous to the People, Bonnetted, without any further deed, to haue them at all into their eſtimation, and report:c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
3. (dated, transitive) To pull the bonnet or cap down over the eyes of.
   • “You’re a dutiful and affectionate little boy, you are, ain’t you?” said Mr. Weller, “to come a bonnetin’ your father in his old age?”1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “Showing How Mr. Samuel Weller Got into Difficulties”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC...

   Synonyms:

   block

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