Snood

Snood Head Coverings Can be Worn for a Variety of Reasons. Snood Head Coverings (also known as 'cauls') can be worn for work, sport activities, daily wear and elegant occasions such as Bat Mitzvah, Bar Mitzvah and Renaissance occasions. Synonyms for snood at Thesaurus.com with free online thesaurus, antonyms, and definitions. Find descriptive alternatives for snood.

English[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

• snod, sneed

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Englishsnod, from Old Englishsnōd(“headdress, fillet, snood”), from Proto-Germanic*snōdō(“rope, string”), from Proto-Indo-European*snoh₁téh₂(“yarn, thread”), from *sneh₁(i)-(“to twist, wind, weave, plait”). Cognate with Scotssnuid(“snood”), Swedishsnod, snodd(“twist, twine”). Compare also Old Saxonsnōva(“necklace”), Old Norsesnúa(“to turn, twist”), snúðr(“a twist, twirl”), Englishneedle.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /snuːd/

• Audio (UK)

• Rhymes: -uːd

Noun[edit]

snood (pluralsnoods)

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.
2. A small hairnet or cap worn by women to keep their hair in place.
   • (Can we date this quote by Sir Walter Scott and provide title, author's full name, and other details?)

     And seldom was a snood amid / Such wild, luxuriant ringlets hid.

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 264:

     serious girls with their hair in snoods entered numbers into logbooks […]

3. The flap of red skin on the beak of a maleturkey.
   • 2000, Gary Clancy, Turkey Hunting Tactics, page 8

     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.

Quotations[edit]

• For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:snood.

Hypernyms[edit]

• (hairnet):hairnet

Hyponyms[edit]

• (hairnet):shpitzel

Coordinate terms[edit]

• (flap of skin on an animal):caruncle, comb, cockscomb, crest, wattle

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Verb[edit]

Supreme ruler 2020 system requirements. snood (third-person singular simple presentsnoods, present participlesnooding, simple past and past participlesnooded)

Mitosis is the division of a cell into two daughter cells that are genetically identical to the parent cell. Meiosis is the division of a germ cell into four sex cells (e.g. Egg or sperm), each with half the number of chromosomes of the parent cell. Mitosis is a means of asexual reproduction, whereas meiosis is necessary for sexual reproduction.

1. To keep the hairin place with a snood.
   • 1792, Robert Burns, 'Tam Lin' (a Scottish popular ballad)

     Janet has kilted her green kirtle
     A little aboon her knee,
     And she has snooded her yellow hair
     A little aboon her bree,

Translations[edit]

Anagrams[edit]

• donos, doons

Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Dutchsnôde, from Old Dutch*snōthi, from Proto-Germanic*snauþuz(“bald, naked, poor”), from Proto-Indo-European*ksnéw-tu-s, from the root *ksnew-(“to scrape, sharpen”). Cognates include Germanschnöde and Old Norsesnauðr.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /snoːt/
• Hyphenation: snood
• Rhymes: -oːt

Adjective[edit]

snood (comparativesnoder, superlativesnoodst)

1. villanous and criminal

   Hij bekokstoofde een snood plan.

   He concocted a villainous plan.

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