English

Women wearing snoods

A turkey with a prominent snood hanging over its beak

Alternative forms

• snod, sneed

Noun

snood ‎(plural snoods)

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 Scott

     And 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 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.

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.

Quotations

• For usage examples of this term, see Citations:snood.

Coordinate terms

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

Hypernyms

• (hairnet): hairnet

Hyponyms

• (hairnet): shpitzel

Translations

Verb

snood ‎(third-person singular simple present snoods, present participle snooding, simple past and past participle snooded)

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,

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