different between snood vs scarf

English

Alternative forms

• snod, sneed

Etymology

From Middle English snod, from Old English sn?d (“headdress, fillet, snood”), from Proto-Germanic *sn?d? (“rope, string”), from Proto-Indo-European *snoh?téh? (“yarn, thread”), from *sneh?(i)- (“to twist, wind, weave, plait”). Cognate with Scots snuid (“snood”), Swedish snod, snodd (“twist, twine”). Compare also Old Saxon sn?va (“necklace”), Old Norse snúa (“to turn, twist”), snúðr (“a twist, twirl”), English needle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /snu?d/
• Rhymes: -u?d

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.

   Hypernym: hairnet

   Hyponym: shpitzel

   • 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 erectile red skin on the beak of a male turkey.

   Coordinate terms: caruncle, comb, cockscomb, crest, wattle

   • 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.

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,

Translations

Further reading

• snood (headgear) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Ondos, donos, doons

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch snôde, from Old Dutch *sn?thi, from Proto-Germanic *snauþuz (“bald, naked, poor”), from Proto-Indo-European *ksnéw-tu-s, from the root *ksnew- (“to scrape, sharpen”). Cognates include German schnöde and Old Norse snauðr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sno?t/
• Hyphenation: snood
• Rhymes: -o?t

Adjective

snood (comparative snoder, superlative snoodst)

1. villanous and criminal

Inflection

Derived terms

• snodelijk

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sk??f/
• (US) IPA^(key): /sk???f/
• Rhymes: -??(?)f

Etymology 1

Probably from Old Northern French escarpe (compare Old French escharpe (“pilgrim's purse suspended from the neck”)). The verb is derived from the noun. Doublet of scrip.

Noun

scarf (plural scarves or scarfs)

1. A long, often knitted, garment worn around the neck.
2. A headscarf.
3. (dated) A neckcloth or cravat.

Derived terms

• infinity scarf
• Möbius scarf

Descendants

• ? Welsh: sgarff

Translations

Verb

scarf (third-person singular simple present scarfs, present participle scarfing, simple past and past participle scarfed)

1. To throw on loosely; to put on like a scarf.
   • 1599-1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 5, Scene 2:

     My sea-gown scarfed about me.

2. To dress with a scarf, or as with a scarf; to cover with a loose wrapping.

Etymology 2

Of uncertain origin. Possibly from Old Norse skarfr, derivative of skera (“to cut”).

Noun

scarf (plural scarfs)

1. A type of joint in woodworking.
2. A groove on one side of a sewing machine needle.
3. A dip or notch or cut made in the trunk of a tree to direct its fall when felling.

Synonyms

• muffler

Translations

Verb

scarf (third-person singular simple present scarfs, present participle scarfing, simple past and past participle scarfed)

1. To shape by grinding.
2. To form a scarf on the end or edge of, as for a joint in timber, forming a "V" groove for welding adjacent metal plates, metal rods, etc.
3. To unite, as two pieces of timber or metal, by a scarf joint.

Etymology 3

Generally thought to be a variant, attested since the 1950s, of scoff (“eat (quickly)”) (of which scorf is another attested variant), itself a variant of scaff. Sometimes alternatively suggested to be a dialectal survival of Old English scearfian, sceorfan (“gnaw, bite”) (compare scurf).

Verb

scarf (third-person singular simple present scarfs, present participle scarfing, simple past and past participle scarfed)

1. (transitive, US, slang) To eat very quickly.

   Synonym: (UK) scoff

Derived terms

• scarf down

Translations

Etymology 4

From Old Norse skarfr.

Noun

scarf (plural scarfs)

1. (Scotland) A cormorant.

References

• scarf in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• carfs, fracs

Old High German

Alternative forms

• scarph

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *skarpaz, whence also Old Saxon skarp, Old English scearp, Old Norse skarpr. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerb-, from *(s)ker- (“to cut”).

Adjective

scarf

1. sharp

Descendants

• Middle High German: scharpf
  • Alemannic German: scharpf
  • Bavarian: scharf
  • Central Franconian: schärp, scharp
  • German: scharf
  • Hunsrik: schaaref
  • Luxembourgish: schaarf
  • Yiddish: ?????? (sharf)