sun-bonneted
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From sun bonnet + -ed.
Adjective
[edit]sun-bonneted (not comparable)
- 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!"