bonnet n.1
1. the vagina.
![]() | Honest Fellow 44: Pray don’t take me wrong, / The theme of my song, / Isn’t that with flounces upon it' / [...] /I mean what all girls have, a bonnet, brave boys, / A flesh purse, by some call’d a bonnet. | |
![]() | Peeping Tom (London) 18 70/2: He’s got his hand upon my bonnet. |
2. a woman.
![]() | Vocab. of the Flash Lang. |
3. SE in slang use.
In compounds
a (large) hat pin.
![]() | ‘The Hill of Illusion’ in Under the Deodars 90: What do you wear these huge dagger bonnet-skewers for? They're big enough to kill a man with. | |
![]() | Southwest Times (Pulaski, VA) 15 June 14/1: The damsel of today carries neither parasol nor bonnet skewer, but that, hasn't cut down the occupational hazards of mashing. |