uncapped

English

Etymology 1

un- +‎ capped

Adjective

uncapped (not comparable)

1. Not capped (in various senses).
   • 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. (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

uncap +‎ -ed

Verb

uncapped

1. simple past tense and past participle of uncap