snood
/snuːd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.80 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
noun
A short line of horsehair, gut, monofilament, etc., by which a fishhook is attached to a longer (and usually heavier) line; a snell.
noun
A piece of clothing to keep the neck warm; neckwarmer.
Example Sentences
- "“Frida [...] tied her hair in the Grecian snood which her lover used to admire so.”"
- "And seldom was a snood amid / Such wild, luxuriant ringlets hid."
- "serious girls with their hair in snoods entered numbers into logbooks […]"
- "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."
- "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."
- "Janet has kilted her green kirtle A little aboon her knee, And she has snooded her yellow hair"
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.