bonnet skewer

English

Noun

bonnet skewer (plural bonnet skewers)

  1. (informal, humorous) A hatpin.
    • 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Hill of Illusion”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 90:
      What do you wear these huge dagger bonnet-skewers for? They're big enough to kill a man with.
    • 1948 June 15, The Southwest Times, Pulaski, Va., page 14, column 1:
      The damsel of today carries neither parasol nor bonnet skewer, but that, hasn't cut down the occupational hazards of mashing.
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