ungloved

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ gloved.

Adjective

ungloved (not comparable)

1. Not wearing a glove; barehanded.

   Hold the bottle with the gloved hand and unscrew the top with the ungloved hand.

   • 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter VII, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 105:

     Our clothing was insufficient to protect us from the severe cold: we had no boots, the snow got into our shoes and melted there; our ungloved hands became numbed and covered with chilblains, as were our feet […]

   • 1975, James Patrick Donleavy, The unexpurgated code: a complete manual of survival and manners:

     Keep your dignity here even though other folk are expending any amount of piranhic energy implanting their ungloved lunch hooks into the property left by another.