sunbonneted

sunbonneted adjective: wearing a sunbonnet.

Adjective

sunbonneted (not comparable)

Wearing a sunbonnet.
- While he is at the front end selling calico to some wearisome old lady, sunbonneted and chaffering, a mischievous boy is very apt to be pocketing lumps of sugar for profit, or starting the faucet of a molasses barrel for fun at the other.1866, “Mr. Dod's Six Shots”, in Harper's Magazine, volume 32, page 208
- Standing expectantly on this porch were two fashionably dressed little tots of girls — cut very much on the same pattern, like paper dolls — and a sunbonneted, gingham-clad young woman whose rounded arm lightly held a heavy but spick and span baby, a regular prize winner for plumpness and fairness...1913, Marion Hill, The Lure of Crooning Water, page 45

And there was about her, small and ginghamed and sunbonneted as she was, a certain reserve and dignity and fineness that they resented.1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Chapter 8”, in Emily of New Moon:
Among them was the “Madonna of the Prairie”—an angelic, idealistic, sunbonneted Euro-American woman, who went west with her family and aided in the Turnerian process of subduing the wilderness.2010, Gordon Morris Bakken, The World of the American West:

alternative form	sun-bonneted

From sunbonnet + -ed.

What does sunbonneted mean?: Sunbonneted means wearing a sunbonnet.
How do you use sunbonneted in a sentence?: And there was about her, small and ginghamed and sunbonneted as she was, a certain reserve and dignity and fineness that they resented.
What part of speech is sunbonneted?: Sunbonneted is an adjective.

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