English edit

Etymology 1 edit

un- +‎ capped

Adjective edit

uncapped (not comparable)

  1. 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.
  2. 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."
  3. (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[1]:
      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.

Etymology 2 edit

uncap +‎ -ed

Verb edit

uncapped

  1. simple past and past participle of uncap