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Snood

//snuːd// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 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. 2
    an ornamental net in the shape of a bag that confines a woman's hair; pins or ties at the back of the head wordnet
  3. 3
    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."

  4. 4
    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."

  5. 5
    A short line of horsehair, gut, monofilament, etc., by which a fishhook is attached to a longer (and usually heavier) line; a snell.
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  1. 6
    A piece of clothing to keep the neck warm; neckwarmer.
Verb
  1. 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"

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

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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