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.
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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.”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:
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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.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):
serious girls with their hair in snoods entered numbers into logbooks […]2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 264:
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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.2000, Gary Clancy, Turkey Hunting Tactics, page 8:
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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.1875, J.C. Wilcocks, The Sea-Fisherman, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., page 62:
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A piece of clothing to keep the neck warm; neckwarmer.
snood
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.
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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 hair1792, Robert Burns, "Tam Lin" (a Scottish popular ballad)