unbonneted
English
Etymology
Adjective
unbonneted (not comparable)
- Not wearing a bonnet.
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act III, Scene 1, [1]
- 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.
- 2004, Marilynne Robinson, Gilead, Virago, 2005, p. 220,
- They walked in in the middle of the sermon in their wash dresses, sweaty and unbonneted […]
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act III, Scene 1, [1]
- (obsolete, rare) circumcised
- 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:
- 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, which he repaid me with a fervour that seem'd at once to thank me, and bribe my farther compliance
Synonyms
- (circumcised): see also Thesaurus:circumcised.
Verb
unbonneted
- simple past and past participle of unbonnet