snood
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snood
- /snuːd/
Rhymes with -uːd
Where it comes from
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.
noun snoods · snod · sneed
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A piece of clothing to keep the neck warm; neckwarmer.
verb snoods · snooding · snooded · snod · sneed
- 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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noun band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place
| Español | redecilla, cintillo |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 스누드 seunudeu |
| 日本語 | スヌード sunūdo |
| Deutsch | Haarnetz, Haarband |
| Русский | ле́нта lénta, повя́зка povjázka |
noun flap of skin on the beak of a turkey
| Español | moco de pavo |
|---|---|
| Français | pendeloque |
| Deutsch | Kehllappen |
| Italiano | bargiglio |
| Română | mărgele |
| Русский | хоботок xobotok, кишка kiška |
noun short line to attach a fishhook to a line
| Deutsch | Mundschnur |
|---|---|
| Русский | поводо́к povodók |
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title = {snood},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/snood},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
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