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snood

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6
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7
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5
Pronunciation
/snuːd/

Definition of snood

6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. 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.””
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noun

  1. 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.””
  2. 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.”
    “serious girls with their hair in snoods entered numbers into logbooks […]”
  3. 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.”
  4. A short line of horsehair, gut, monofilament, etc., by which a fishhook is attached to a longer (and usually heavier) line; a snell.
  5. A piece of clothing to keep the neck warm; neckwarmer.

verb

  1. To keep the hair in place with a snood.
    “Janet has kilted her green kirtle A little aboon her knee, And she has snooded her yellow hair”

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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,…

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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.

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