uncapped
English
Adjective
uncapped (not comparable)
- Not capped (in various senses); not wearing or possessing a cap.
- 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
- I struggling faintly, could not help feeling what I could not grasp, a column of the whitest ivory, beautifully streak'd with blue veins, and carrying, fully uncapt, a head of the liveliest vermillion
- 1876, Alfred Austin, The Human Tragedy, page 255:
- From rolling plain where crumbling Tiber flows, / To fixed Soracte still uncapped with snow.
- Of honey, not having been sealed by bees with a wax cover in the cell.
- 2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 110:
- "And I see over here you have buckets of honey you have gathered. It is uncapped, and liquid."
- (sports) Not having made an appearance in an international sports match.
- 2020 August 7, Jonathan Liew, “Phil Foden stars to offer Manchester City glimpse of multiple futures”, in The Guardian:
- there seems nothing very unusual about an uncapped 20-year-old English midfielder being asked to step up in the Champions League last-16 against Real Madrid.
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