uncapped

English

Etymology 1

From un- ‎ capped.

Adjective

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: […] [Thomas Parker] for 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.

   • 2024 July 24, Guardian sport, “Who are football’s most expensive uncapped players?”, in The Guardian‎^[2], →ISSN:

     The jury is still out on their purchase of French defender Wesley Fofana, who cost £75m from Leicester in 2022 and has struggled with injury. He made his France debut in 2023 but remains, we think, the most expensive player to move clubs while uncapped.

Etymology 2

From uncap ‎ -ed.

Verb

uncapped

1. simple past and past participle of uncap