bonneting

'bonneting' the proprietor of this itinerant coffee-house.

Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people Charles Dickens 1841

The wan looks and gaudy finery of the thinly – clad women contrasted as strangely with the gay sunlight, as did their forced merriment with the boisterous hilarity of the two young men, who, now and then, varied their amusements by ‘bonneting’ the proprietor of this itinerant coffee – house.

Sketches by Boz 2007

‘Not like bonneting,’ said the man; ‘ah, I see, you would like to be principal; well, a time may come — those long white fingers of yours would just serve for the business.’

Lavengro 2004

‘First-rate,’ said I; ‘bonneting is more profitable than reviewing.’

Lavengro 2004

Even newspapers have of late been eloquent against the disgusting immoralities of breaking knockers and bonneting policemen.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Various

In reality, however, the bonneting is due to weeks of daily encounters with the constable, at each of which meetings the dislike for his helmet and the idea of smashing it in grow a little larger, till finally they blossom into the deed itself.

Psmith in the City 1928

The sage contrived to purloin the talisman while the khan and his guards slept; but not content with this he gave a further proof of his dexterity by bonneting the slumbering potentate with a bladder.

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

The sage contrived to purloin the talisman while the khan and his guards slept; but not content with this he gave a further proof of his dexterity by bonneting the slumbering potentate with a bladder.

Chapter 66. The External Soul in Folk-Tales 1922

You saw me putting on my hat; you did not see love taking on the crown of pity, and me bonneting her with it, tripping her up and trampling the life out of her.

Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story Max Beerbohm 1914

You saw me putting on my hat; you did not see love taking on the crown of pity, and me bonneting her with it, tripping her up and trampling the life out of her.

Zuleika Dobson 1911