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English
Etymology
From neckerchief + -ed.
Adjective
neckerchiefed (not comparable)
- Wearing a neckerchief.
1836 December, “My Poem!”, in The Lady’s Magazine & Museum of the Belles-Lettres, Music, Fine Arts, Drama, Fashions, &c., volume IX, Dobbs & C.ͦ, page 259:Suffice it to say, that I plunged deeper and deeper into the Heliconian stream; sonnet following sonnet with such celerity, that long before a month was over my head, I was transformed from a sedate, white cravatted clerk, into a sighing, careless, open collared, black neckerchiefed, ballad-monger.
1840, , “Introductory—Reasons for writing—Interest of a Tour in Norway—”, in Two Summers in Norway, volume I, London: Saunders and Otley, , page 28:It is impossible not to smile at seeing them on a holiday in the dog-days, cumbered with an extraordinary superfluity of petticoats, and coifed and neckerchiefed up to the throat.
1844, , chapter XXIV, in D’Horsay; or, The Follies of the Day, London: William Strange, , page 146:Reclining at his feet was the white-neckerchiefed individual addressed by the Queen of the Chase as “Ginger.”
1844, Angus B Reach, “The Philosophy of Shops”, in Douglas Jerrold, editor, The Illuminated Magazine, volume III, London: the Proprietors, , page 321:The proprietors probably think that their good things can recommend themselves to their fair costumers; that a puff can speak for itself, and that ices are too pleasant to require the insinuating address of a white-neckerchiefed, ringletted youth for their disposal.
2004 March 15, The Independent, number 5,431, page 21:Chorion, the media content group which owns the rights to Noddy and other Enid Blyton characters, will announce this morning that the neckerchiefed boy has won a landmark deal in China.
2007 January 6, Denise Snodell, “Hot Toy Hunt Ends in Serendipity”, in Lee’s Summit/Southland Neighborhood News (The Kansas City Star), page 2:Ten minutes into my hovering gig, my neckerchiefed bell ringer turned to me and said, “Mom, that guy just walked into the store with a WART.”