snood – English noun declension

English noun forms of snood

Noun: snood
Singularsnood
Pluralsnoods

Sample Sentences

  • “Frida [...] tied her hair in the Grecian snood which her lover used to admire so.” [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:]
  • And seldom was a snood amid / Such wild, luxuriant ringlets hid. [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):]
  • serious girls with their hair in snoods entered numbers into logbooks […] [2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 264:]
  • 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. [2000, Gary Clancy, Turkey Hunting Tactics, page 8:]
  • 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. [1875, J.C. Wilcocks, The Sea-Fisherman, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., page 62:]

Etymology

1. 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”).
2. 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. See: Old Norse Nouns 'snúa', English Nouns 'needle'.

Verbs referencing "snood"

Dutch Nouns sneu.