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snood

noun

  1. coarse, decorative hairnet, sometimes attached to a hat, worn over a chignon or rolled hair
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /snuːd/

noun

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.

  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

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.

  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”