sun-bonneted

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English

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Etymology

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From sun bonnet +‎ -ed.

Adjective

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sun-bonneted (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of sunbonneted.
    • 1948 November and December, “By Broad Gauge to Cornwall”, in Railway Magazine, page 361:
      If a sun-bonneted market woman got in with us, mother could never resist talking to her, and answering the invariable Cornish question: "Wheer be 'ee goin'?" Then would follow the astonished "From Lunnon are 'ee? Aw, my deer!"