Meanings
adjectivesun-bonneted (not comparable)
- alternativenot comparableAlternative 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
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