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sun-bonneted en · ADJ

Etymology

From sun bonnet + -ed.

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative form of sunbonneted.
    • 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!" 1948 November and December, “By Broad Gauge to Cornwall”, in Railway Magazine, page 361: