bonneting
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
bonneting
- present participle and gerund of bonnet
Noun[edit]
bonneting (countable and uncountable, plural bonnetings)
- The act of a person being bonneted, i.e. having their cap pulled down over their head.
- 1998, Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 31, page 290:
- It is quite true that the yells and shrieks, the bonnetings and ticklings, the hat throwing and fighting, give way for the instant to an intense desire to behold the sight, and the immense concourse was momentarily hushed in the depth of its excitement […]