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Skullcap vs Skullcapped - What's the difference?

skullcap | skullcapped |

As a noun skullcap

is a small domed cap that covers from the forehead to just above the back of the neck.

As an adjective skullcapped is

wearing a skullcap.

skullcap

English

Alternative forms

* skull cap, skull-cap

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small domed cap that covers from the forehead to just above the back of the neck.
  • A yarmulke-like hat worn as an element of ghetto fashion.
  • Any of several species of flowering plants, of the genus , in the Lamiaceae family.

    • Synonyms

    * (yarmulke) kippah

    See also

    * kippah * yarmulka, yarmulke * zucchetto, zuchetto

    skullcapped

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Wearing a skullcap
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=2009-03-13, author=Pico Iyer, title=Heaven’s Gate, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Some of the people not far from the large mosque down the street were skullcapped Muslim elders and some, I learned, were Indo-Iranians, who trace their blue or green eyes to Alexander the Great. }}