unbonneted

English

Etymology

un- +‎ bonneted

Adjective

unbonneted (not comparable)

1. 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 […]

2. (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

1. simple past and past participle of unbonnet