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uncapped

adjective

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Wiktionary

adj

Etymology: From un- + capped. Piecewise doublet of uncaped and uncoped.

  1. Not capped (in various senses); not wearing or possessing a cap.

    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

    From rolling plain where crumbling Tiber flows, / To fixed Soracte still uncapped with snow.

  2. Of honey, not having been sealed by bees with a wax cover in the cell.

    "And I see over here you have buckets of honey you have gathered. It is uncapped, and liquid."

  3. Not having made an appearance in an international sports match.

    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.

    The jury is still out on their purchase of French defender Wesley Fofana, who cost £75m from Leicester in 2022 and has struggled with injury. He made his France debut in 2023 but remains, we think, the most expensive player to move clubs while uncapped.

verb

Etymology: Etymology tree English uncap English -ed English uncapped From uncap + -ed.

  1. simple past and past participle of uncap