# snood
## English
### 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: /snuːd/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -uːd

### Noun

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.
    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 […]
* 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.
* 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.

#### Translations
### Verb

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,

#### Translations
### 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: /snoːt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: snood
* Rhymes: -oːt

### Adjective

snood (comparative snoder, superlative snoodst)
* villanous and criminal
    Hij bekokstoofde een snood plan.He concocted a villainous plan.

#### Derived terms

* snodelijk