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neckerchiefed

neckerchiefed adjective: wearing a neckerchief.

Adjective

neckerchiefed (not comparable)

  1. Wearing a neckerchief.
    • Suffice it to say, that I plunged deeper and deeper into the Heliconian stream; sonnet following sonnet with such celerity, that long before a month was over my head, I was transformed from a sedate, white cravatted clerk, into a sighing, careless, open collared, black neckerchiefed, ballad-monger.1836 December, “My Poem!”, in The Lady’s Magazine & Museum of the Belles-Lettres, Music, Fine Arts, Drama, Fashions, &c., volume IX, Dobbs & C.ͦ, page 259
    • It is impossible not to smile at seeing them on a holiday in the dog-days, cumbered with an extraordinary superfluity of petticoats, and coifed and neckerchiefed up to the throat.1840, [William Bilton], “Introductory—Reasons for writing—Interest of a Tour in Norway—[…]”, in Two Summers in Norway, volume I, London: Saunders and Otley, […], page 28

Examples of neckerchiefed in a sentence

  • Reclining at his feet was the white-neckerchiefed individual addressed by the Queen of the Chase as “Ginger.”1844, [John Mills], chapter XXIV, in D’Horsay; or, The Follies of the Day, London: William Strange, […], page 146:
  • Chorion, the media content group which owns the rights to Noddy and other Enid Blyton characters, will announce this morning that the neckerchiefed boy has won a landmark deal in China.2004 March 15, The Independent, number 5,431, page 21:
  • Ten minutes into my hovering gig, my neckerchiefed bell ringer turned to me and said, “Mom, that guy just walked into the store with a WART.”2007 January 6, Denise Snodell, “Hot Toy Hunt Ends in Serendipity”, in Lee’s Summit/Southland Neighborhood News (The Kansas City Star)...

Forms of neckerchiefed

alternative formneckerchieved

Origin of neckerchiefed

From neckerchief + -ed.

Questions about neckerchiefed

What does neckerchiefed mean?
Neckerchiefed means wearing a neckerchief.
How do you use neckerchiefed in a sentence?
Reclining at his feet was the white-neckerchiefed individual addressed by the Queen of the Chase as “Ginger.”
What part of speech is neckerchiefed?
Neckerchiefed is an adjective.

Words near neckerchiefed in the dictionary

  1. necker's knobs
  2. neckeraceous
  3. neckercher
  4. neckerchers
  5. neckerchief
  6. neckerchiefed
  7. neckerchiefs
  8. neckerchieved
  9. neckerchieves
  10. Neckerian
  11. neckers

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