ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Bonneting

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Bonneting is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of bonnet.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of bonnet.

More Meanings

  1. The act of a person being bonneted, i.e. having their cap pulled down over their head.

Example Sentences

It is quite true that the yells and shrieks, the bonnetings and ticklings, the hat throwing and fighting, give way for the instant to an intense desire to behold the sight, and the immense concourse was momentarily hushed in the depth of its excitement […]

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hood, bonnetstring, bunnet, sunbonnet, biggon, capote.

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