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unbonneted

unbonneted adjective: not wearing a bonnet. Also the simple past and past participle of unbonnet.

Adjective

unbonneted (not comparable)

  1. Not wearing a bonnet.
    • This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch,
      The lion and the belly-pinched wolf
      Keep their fur dry, unbonneted he runs,
      And bids what will take all.c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
    • The effect on entrance is very striking: a crowd, where the majority are females, with gay-coloured dresses, and their heads unbonneted, always gives the idea of festival:...1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 234
  2. (obsolete, rare) Circumcised.
    • But I was, myself, far from being pleas'd with his having too much regarded my tender exclaims; for now, more and more fired with the object before me, as it still stood with the fiercest erection, unbonnetted, and displaying its broad vermilion head, I first gave the youth a re-encouraging kiss...1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC

Also used as

unbonneted is also the simple past and past participle of unbonnet.

Origin of unbonneted

From un- + bonneted.

Questions about unbonneted

What does unbonneted mean?
Unbonneted means not wearing a bonnet.
What part of speech is unbonneted?
Unbonneted is an adjective.

Words near unbonneted in the dictionary

  1. unbone
  2. unboned
  3. unbones
  4. unboning
  5. unbonnet
  6. unbonneted
  7. unbonneting
  8. unbonnets
  9. unbonnetted
  10. unbonnetting
  11. unbonny

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