bonnet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒnɪt/
ipa: /ˈbɑnɪt/
ipa: /ˈbɑnət/
homophone: banate
rhymes: -ɒnɪt
Forms: form: bonnets
form: bunnet
Etymology: From Middle English bonet, from Middle French bonet (Modern French bonnet), from Old French bonet (“material from which hats are made”), from Frankish *bunni (“that which is bound”), from Proto-Germanic *bundiją (“bundle”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (“to tie”).
Compare also Late Latin abbonis, obbonis (“ribbon of a headdress”), also of Germanic origin, from Frankish *obbunni, from *ob- (“above, over”) + *bunni.
Cognate with Old High German gibunt (“band, ribbon”), Middle Dutch bont (“bundle, truss”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌱𐌿𐌽𐌳𐌹 (gabundi, “bond”). More at over, bundle.
Senses: examples: text: In the hall, Scarlett saw a bonnet and put it on hurriedly, tying the ribbons under her chin. It was Melanie's black mourning bonnet and it did not fit Scarlett's head but she could not recall where she had put her own bonnet.
ref: 1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, chapter XXIII, in Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC, part IV, page 382:
text: “Now,” said he, “put such a bonnet as that in the show window.” He did not fill his show-window up town with a lot of hats and bonnets to drive people away, and then sit on the back stairs and bawl because people went to Wanamaker's to trade.
ref: 2008, Russell H. Conwell, Robert Shackleton, Acres of Diamonds, page 37:
glosses: A type of hat, once worn by women or children, held in place by ribbons tied under the chin.
examples: text: A shock-head of red hair, which the hat and periwig of the Lowland costume had in a great measure concealed, was seen beneath the Highland bonnet, and verified the epithet of Roy, or Red, by which he was much better known in the low country than by any other, and is still, I suppose, best remembered.
ref: 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter V, in Rob Roy. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 147:
glosses: A traditional Scottish woollen brimless cap; a bunnet.
examples: text: Make sure that the power buffer's lamb's-wool bonnet is clean. Change or rinse the bonnet frequently to avoid scratching the finish. Use the bonnet as a mitten to buff in the crevices and other areas that the power buffer can't reach.
ref: 2008, The Editors of Popular Mechanics, Popular Mechanics Complete Car Care Manual, page 297:
glosses: The polishing head of a power buffer, often made of wool.
examples: text: The car is burgundy red, wide and elegant, ten years old but still the boys are impressed and they run to touch it, pressing sticky handprints against the polished bodywork and trying to climb up onto the bonnet.
ref: 2003, Jon McGregor, If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, page 189:
text: People were reluctant to slam a bonnet shut in those days. One just did not slam bonnets and doors.
ref: 2004, David Spencer, quoted in Don Loffler, The FJ Holden: A Favourite Australian Car, page 217:
text: By about 20 ms, there is contact between the bonnet leading edge and the pedestrian upper leg/pelvis on the struck side, the severity of which depends on the vehicle shape.
ref: 2009, Ciaran Simms, Denis Wood, Pedestrian and Cyclist Impact: A Biomechanical Perspective, page 38:
text: Stoll was still standing on the car bonnet with the catch of his large-calibre repeating rifle off.
ref: 2009, Stefan Aust, Anthea Bell, Baader-Meinhof: the inside story of the R.A.F., page 308:
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: The hinged cover over the engine of a motor car, also known as a hood in chiefly Canada and the US.
examples: text: And standing along to the Westward, this night we tryed with our mayne coarse and bonnet. On Saturday night we came to an anker, in three fathomes against Sewramo.
ref: 1596, Thomas Masham, “The Third Voyage set forth by Sir Walter Ralegh to Guiana”, in Richard Hakluyt, editor, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffics and Discoveries of the English Nation, volume 3, London, page 695:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A length of canvas attached to a fore-and-aft sail to increase the pulling power.
glosses: An accomplice of a gambler, auctioneer, etc., who entices others to bet or to bid.
glosses: The second stomach of a ruminant.
glosses: A ducat, an old Scottish coin worth 40 shillings.
glosses: Anything resembling a bonnet (hat) in shape or use.
A small defence work at a salient angle; or a part of a parapet elevated to screen the other part from enfilade fire.
glosses: Anything resembling a bonnet (hat) in shape or use.
A metallic canopy, or projection, over an opening, as a fireplace, or a cowl or hood to increase the draught of a chimney, etc.
glosses: Anything resembling a bonnet (hat) in shape or use.
A frame of wire netting over a locomotive chimney, to prevent escape of sparks.
glosses: Anything resembling a bonnet (hat) in shape or use.
A roofing over the cage of a mine, to protect its occupants from objects falling down the shaft.
glosses: Anything resembling a bonnet (hat) in shape or use.
In pumps, a metal covering for the openings in the valve chambers.
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Anything resembling a bonnet (hat) in shape or use.
A mushroom of the genus Mycena.
Synonyms: sense: Scottish brimless hat
word: tam o'shanter
sense: cover over the engine of a motor car
word: hood
Derived terms: bee in one's bonnet
blue bonnet
bonnet bellflower
bonnet drama
bonneted
bonnethead
bonnet laird
bonnetless
bonnetlike
bonnet macaque
bonnet monkey
bonnet piece
bonnet ripper
bonnet skewer
bonnet snail
bonnetstring
bride's bonnet
bug in one's bonnet
coal-scuttle bonnet
doctor's bonnet
Glengarry bonnet
granny's bonnet
old maid's bonnet
on it like a car bonnet
poke bonnet
poky bonnet
scoop bonnet
Scotch bonnet
sunbonneted
sun-bonneted
sunbonnet
sun bonnet
Tudor bonnet
unbonnet
war bonnet