snood
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Etymology edit
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 edit
Noun edit
snood (plural snoods)
- 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.”
- A small hairnet or cap worn by women to keep their hair in place.
- 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 […]
- The flap of erectile red skin on the beak of a male turkey.
- 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.
- A short line of horsehair, gut, monofilament, etc., by which a fishhook is attached to a longer (and usually heavier) line; a snell.
- A piece of clothing to keep the neck warm; neckwarmer.
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Verb edit
snood (third-person singular simple present snoods, present participle snooding, simple past and past participle snooded)
- 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,
- Janet has kilted her green kirtle
- 1792, Robert Burns, "Tam Lin" (a Scottish popular ballad)
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Further reading edit
- snood (headgear) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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Etymology edit
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 edit
Adjective edit
snood (comparative snoder, superlative snoodst)
Inflection edit
Declension of snood | ||||
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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 | — |
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- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *(s)neh₁-
- English terms inherited from Middle English
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- Rhymes:English/uːd
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