bonnet
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: automotive
biology
mycology
natural-sciences
nautical
transport
vehicles
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.
Inflected forms:
form: bonnets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bunnet
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bonnets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bonneting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bonnetting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bonneted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bonneted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: bonnetted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bonnetted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: bunnet
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A type of hat, once worn by women or children, held in place by ribbons tied under the chin.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
“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.
gloss: A traditional Scottish woollen brimless cap; a bunnet.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: The polishing head of a power buffer, often made of wool.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: 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.
gloss: The hinged cover over the engine of a motor car.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
examples: 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.
People were reluctant to slam a bonnet shut in those days. One just did not slam bonnets and doors.
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.
Stoll was still standing on the car bonnet with the catch of his large-calibre repeating rifle off.
gloss: A length of canvas attached to a fore-and-aft sail to increase the pulling power.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: An accomplice of a gambler, auctioneer, etc., who entices others to bet or to bid.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
slang
examples: “All you have to do is to put a sovereign down on my table, and to find the pea, which I put under one of my thimbles. […] Why,” said the man, “I think you would do to be my bonnet.”
“What would the wages be?” I demanded.
“Why, to a first-rate bonnet, as I think you would prove, I could afford to give from forty to fifty shillings a week.”
gloss: The second stomach of a ruminant.
pos: noun
gloss: A ducat, an old Scottish coin worth 40 shillings.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: Anything resembling a bonnet (hat) in shape or use.
pos: noun
gloss: Anything resembling a bonnet (hat) in shape or use.
pos: noun
gloss: Anything resembling a bonnet (hat) in shape or use.
pos: noun
gloss: Anything resembling a bonnet (hat) in shape or use.
pos: noun
gloss: Anything resembling a bonnet (hat) in shape or use.
pos: noun
gloss: Anything resembling a bonnet (hat) in shape or use.
pos: noun
gloss: To put a bonnet on.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To take off the bonnet or cap as a mark of respect; to uncover.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: Hee hath deſerued worthily of his Countrey, and his aſſent is not by ſuch eaſie degrees as thoſe, who hauing beene ſupple and courteous to the People, Bonnetted, without any further deed, to haue them at all into their eſtimation, and report:
gloss: To pull the bonnet or cap down over the eyes of.
pos: verb
tags: dated
transitive
examples: “You’re a dutiful and affectionate little boy, you are, ain’t you?” said Mr. Weller, “to come a bonnetin’ your father in his old age?”
Related words: boot
Derived words: bee in one's bonnet
blue bonnet
Bonnet Bay
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
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: piipunhattu
lang: Finnish
word: hattu