Meanings
plural snoods · alternative snod · alternative sneed
- 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.
“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 - A small hairnet or cap worn by women to keep their hair in place.
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)1 more example
serious girls with their hair in snoods entered numbers into logbooks […]
2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 264 - A short line of horsehair, gut, monofilament, etc., by which a fishhook is attached to a longer (and usually heavier) line; a snell.
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 - A piece of clothing to keep the neck warm; neckwarmer.
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*snoh₁téh₂“yarn, thread”
- Proto-Germanic*snōdō“rope, string”
- Proto-West Germanic*snōdu
- Old Englishsnōd“headdress, fillet, snood”
- Middle Englishsnod
- Englishsnood
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.
More words from Middle English, Old English, Proto-West Germanic
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan bigotera, moc
- bigoteraband or ribbon for keeping the hair in place
- mocflap of skin on the beak of a turkey
Dutch lel
- lelflap of skin on the beak of a turkey
Finnish tukkanauha, heltta
- tukkanauhaband or ribbon for keeping the hair in place
- helttaflap of skin on the beak of a turkey
- perukeshort line to attach a fishhook to a line
French pendeloque
- pendeloqueflap of skin on the beak of a turkey
German Haarnetz, Haarband
- Haarnetzband or ribbon for keeping the hair in place
- Haarbandband or ribbon for keeping the hair in place
- Kehllappenflap of skin on the beak of a turkey
- Mundschnurshort line to attach a fishhook to a line
Irish losna, lusna
- losnashort line to attach a fishhook to a line
- lusnashort line to attach a fishhook to a line
- droghashort line to attach a fishhook to a line
- foirtéimshort line to attach a fishhook to a line
- snúdashort line to attach a fishhook to a line
Italian bargiglio
- bargiglioflap of skin on the beak of a turkey
Japanese スヌード
- スヌード (sunūdo)band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place
Korean 스누드
- 스누드 (seunudeu)band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place
Māori takā, taukaea
- takāshort line to attach a fishhook to a line
- taukaeashort line to attach a fishhook to a line
Polish opaska, wisior
- opaskaband or ribbon for keeping the hair in place
- wisiorflap of skin on the beak of a turkey
- przyponshort line to attach a fishhook to a line
- zakładać opaskę na włosyto keep the hair in place with a snood
- założyć opaskę na włosyto keep the hair in place with a snood
Romanian mărgele
- mărgeleflap of skin on the beak of a turkey
Russian ле́нта, повя́зка
- ле́нта (lénta)band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place
- повя́зка (povjázka)band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place
- хоботок (xobotok)flap of skin on the beak of a turkey
- кишка (kiška)flap of skin on the beak of a turkey
- поводо́к (povodók)short line to attach a fishhook to a line
Scottish Gaelic stìom
- stìomband or ribbon for keeping the hair in place
Spanish redecilla, cintillo
- redecillaband or ribbon for keeping the hair in place
- cintilloband or ribbon for keeping the hair in place
- moco de pavoflap of skin on the beak of a turkey
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Cite this entry
snood. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/snood
“snood.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/snood. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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