snood

English

WOTD – 4 September 2012

Women wearing snoods

A turkey with a prominent snood hanging over its beak

Alternative forms

• snod, sneed

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /snuːd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -uːd

Noun

snood (plural snoods)

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.
   • 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:

     “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.

   Hypernym: hairnet

   Hyponym: shpitzel

   • 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):

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

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 264:

     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.

   Coordinate terms: caruncle, comb, cockscomb, crest, wattle

   • 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.

Translations

band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place

• Catalan: bigotera f (for moustaches)
• Finnish: tukkanauha
• German: Haarnetz (de) n, Haarband n
• Japanese: スヌード (sunūdo)
• Korean: 스누드 (seunudeu)
• Russian: ле́нта (ru) f (lénta) (скрепля́ющая во́лосы), повя́зка (ru) f (povjázka) (для воло́с)
• Scottish Gaelic: stìom f
• Spanish: redecilla (es) f, cintillo m

hairnet — see hairnet

flap of skin on the beak of a turkey

• Catalan: moc (ca) m
• Dutch: lel (nl) f
• Finnish: heltta (fi)
• French: pendeloque (fr) f
• Galician: moco (gl) m
• German: Kehllappen m pl
• Italian: bargiglio (it) m
• Romanian: mărgele f pl
• Spanish: moco de pavo m

short line to attach a fishhook to a line

• Finnish: peruke (fi)
• German: Mundschnur f
• Irish: losna m, lusna m, drogha m, foirtéim f, snúda m
• Maori: takā, taukaea
• Russian: поводо́к (ru) m (povodók) (у́дочки)

neckwarmer — see neckwarmer

Verb

snood (third-person singular simple present snoods, present participle snooding, simple past and past participle snooded)

1. To keep the hair in 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

to keep the hair in place with a snood

Further reading

• snood (headgear) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Ondos, donos, doons

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch snôde, 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 German schnöde and Old Norse snauðr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /snoːt/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: snood
• Rhymes: -oːt

Adjective

snood (comparative snoder, superlative snoodst)

1. villanous and criminal

   Hij bekokstoofde een snood plan.

   He concocted a villainous plan.

Declension

Declension of snood
uninflected	snood
inflected	snode
comparative	snoder
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		snood	snoder	het snoodst het snoodste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	snode	snodere	snoodste
	n. sing.	snood	snoder	snoodste
	plural	snode	snodere	snoodste
definite		snode	snodere	snoodste
partitive		snoods	snoders	—

Derived terms

• snodelijk