snood en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /snuːd/
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From Middle English snod, from Old English snōd (“headdress, fillet, snood”), from Proto-West Germanic *snōdu, from Proto-Germanic *snōdō (“rope, string”), from Proto-Indo-European *snoh₁téh₂ (“yarn, thread”), from *sneh₁(i)- (“to twist, wind, weave, plait”). Cognate with Scots snuid (“snood”), Swedish snod, snodd (“twist, twine”). Compare also Old Saxon snōva (“necklace”), Old Norse snúa (“to turn, twist”), snúðr (“a twist, twirl”), English needle.
Meanings
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A band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place, including the hair-band formerly worn in Scotland and northern England by young unmarried women.
“Frida [...] tied her hair in the Grecian snood which her lover used to admire so.”
1895, R. D. Blackmore, chapter 9, in Frida, or, The Lover’s Leap, A Legend of the West Country, Dodd, Mead and Company, paragraph 1:
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A small hairnet or cap worn by women to keep their hair in place.
And seldom was a snood amid / Such wild, luxuriant ringlets hid.
1810, Walter Scott, “(please specify the canto number or page)”, in The Lady of the Lake; […], Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for John Ballantyne and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller, →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number):serious girls with their hair in snoods entered numbers into logbooks […]
2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 264:
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The flap of erectile red skin on the beak of a male turkey.
A fingerlike projection called a snood hangs over the front of the beak. When the tom is alert, the snood constricts and projects vertically as a fleshy bump at the top rear of the beak.
2000, Gary Clancy, Turkey Hunting Tactics, page 8:
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A short line of horsehair, gut, monofilament, etc., by which a fishhook is attached to a longer (and usually heavier) line; a snell.
The baits are [...] dropped on the snood, as I have seen done by many unthinking persons who have only been accustomed to chopstick lines, a foul is the natural result.
1875, J.C. Wilcocks, The Sea-Fisherman, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., page 62:
- A piece of clothing to keep the neck warm; neckwarmer.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| sneed | alternative | lexicographic | |
| snod | alternative | lexicographic | |
| snoods | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Coordinates
caruncle · crest · wattle · cockscomb · comb
Hypernyms
Translations (35)
de Kehllappen (flap of skin on the beak of a turkey) · fr pendeloque (flap of skin on the beak of a turkey) · pl opaska (band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place) · ru кишка (flap of skin on the beak of a turkey) · ga snúda (short line to attach a fishhook to a line) · ca moc (flap of skin on the beak of a turkey) · pl przypon (short line to attach a fishhook to a line) · es moco de pavo (flap of skin on the beak of a turkey) · ko 스누드 (band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place) · ga lusna (short line to attach a fishhook to a line) · ja スヌード (band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place) · ga drogha (short line to attach a fishhook to a line) · ro mărgele (flap of skin on the beak of a turkey) · es cintillo (band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place) · de Haarband (band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place) · it bargiglio (flap of skin on the beak of a turkey) · mi taukaea (short line to attach a fishhook to a line) · ga foirtéim (short line to attach a fishhook to a line) · ru хоботок (flap of skin on the beak of a turkey) · gl moco (flap of skin on the beak of a turkey) · ru ле́нта (band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place) · nl lel (flap of skin on the beak of a turkey) · fi tukkanauha (band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place) · ru поводо́к (short line to attach a fishhook to a line) · pl wisior (flap of skin on the beak of a turkey) · ru повя́зка (band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place) · de Haarnetz (band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place) · mi takā (short line to attach a fishhook to a line) · fi heltta (flap of skin on the beak of a turkey) · gd stìom (band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place) · fi peruke (short line to attach a fishhook to a line) · ga losna (short line to attach a fishhook to a line) · de Mundschnur (short line to attach a fishhook to a line) · ca bigotera (band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place) · es redecilla (band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place)