Snood

Pronunciation

• IPA: /snuːd/
• Rhymes: -uːd

Origin

Old English snōd.

Full definition of snood

Noun

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.
2. A small hairnet or cap worn by women to keep their hair in place.
• Sir Walter ScottAnd seldom was a snood amid
  Such wild, luxuriant ringlets hid.
• 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 264:serious girls with their hair in snoods entered numbers into logbooks ...
3. The flap of red skin on the beak of a male turkey.
• 2000, Gary Clancy, Turkey Hunting Tactics, page 8A 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.
4. A short line of horsehair, gut, monofilament, etc., by which a fishhook is attached to a longer (and usually heavier) line; a snell.
5. A piece of clothing to keep the neck warm; neckwarmer.

Coordinate terms

• (flap of skin on an animal) caruncle, comb, cockscomb, crest, wattle

Hypernyms

• (hairnet) hairnet

Hyponyms

• (hairnet) shpitzel

Verb

1. 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,