bonnet : Idioms & Phrases


Black bonnet

  • (Zoöl.), the black-headed bunting (Embriza Schoeniclus) of Europe.
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Blue bonnet

  • . See in the Vocabulary.
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Bonnet head

  • (Zoöl.), a shark (Sphyrna tiburio) of the southern United States and West Indies.
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Bonnet limpet

  • (Zoöl.), a name given, from their shape, to various species of shells (family Calyptræidæ).
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bonnet macaque

  • noun Indian macaque with a bonnet-like tuft of hair
    Macaca radiata; crown monkey; bonnet macaque; capped macaque.
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Bonnet monkey

  • noun Indian macaque with a bonnet-like tuft of hair
    Macaca radiata; crown monkey; bonnet macaque; capped macaque.
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  • (Zoöl.), an East Indian monkey (Macacus sinicus), with a tuft of hair on its head; the munga.
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Bonnet piece

  • a gold coin of the time of James V. of Scotland, the king's head on which wears a bonnet. Sir W. Scott.
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bonnet shark

  • noun small harmless hammerhead having a spade-shaped head; abundant in bays and estuaries
    Sphyrna tiburo; shovelhead; bonnethead.
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bride's bonnet

  • noun plant with 1 or 2 white starlike flowers on short leafless stalks; Alaska to California and east to Oregon and Montana
    queen's cup; Clintonia uniflora.
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Chip bonnet, Chip hat

  • a bonnet or a hat made of Chip. See Chip, n., 3.
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granny's bonnets

  • noun common European columbine having variously colored (white or blue to purple or red) short-spurred flowers; naturalized in United States
    Aquilegia vulgaris.
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old-maid's bonnet

  • noun stout perennial of eastern and central North America having palmate leaves and showy racemose blue flowers
    Lupinus perennis; Indian beet; sundial lupine; wild lupine.
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Poke bonnet

  • noun a hat tied under the chin
    bonnet.
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  • a bonnet with a straight, projecting front.
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To have a bee in the bonnet

  • . See under Bee.
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To have a bee in the headin the bonnet

  • . (a) To be choleric. Obs. (b) To be restless or uneasy. B. Jonson. (c) To be full of fancies; to be a little crazy. "She's whiles crack-brained, and has a bee in her head." Sir W. Scott.
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