thinking-cap

See also: thinking cap

English

Noun

thinking-cap (plural thinking-caps)

1. Alternative form of thinking cap
   • 1855 February 28, “On with Your Thinking-caps!”, in Youth’s Penny Gazette, volume XIII, number 5 (number 317 overall), Philadelphia, Pa., New York, N.Y., Boston, Mass.: American Sunday-School Union, →OCLC, page 18, column 1:

     Now suppose they put on their "thinking-caps" a moment or two, and consider what is going on in the great world around them. [...] Before you pull off your "thinking-cap" cast a look around your own country—free, prosperous, powerful, independent; yet how full of wickedness, and how unmindful of its obligation to the God of nations!

   • 1864, William M. Thayer, “Introduction”, in A Child’s History of the Rebellion, from the Bombardment of Fort Sumter to the Capture of Roanoke Island, Boston, Mass.: Walker, Wise, and Company, […], →OCLC, page 24:

     The story you shall have, then, just as well as I can tell it: and you must put on your thinking-caps, so as to remember all you can of it; and be sure to ask questions about what you don't understand.

   • 1916, Sara H. Merrill, “The Hero Turtle”, in John Martin [pseudonym; Morgan van Roorbach Shepard], editor, John Martin’s Annual: A Jolly Big Book for Little Folks, Garden City, N.Y.: Published by John Martin’s House Inc. […] for Platt & Peck Co., →OCLC:

     As time passed the Great Spirit grew fonder and fonder of his good-natured friend, and was grieved to see him suffer for the lack of a full dinner pot and stomach, so the Great Spirit put on his thinking-cap and learned a way to help Mr. Turtle. "The old fellow needs a wife!" said the Great Spirit taking off his thinking-cap.