different between snoof vs snood

English

Etymology

Created in the 1940s.(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Any connection to "deaf"?”)

Adjective

snoof (comparative more snoof, superlative most snoof)

1. (humorous, nonstandard) Having lost the sense of smell.
   • 1946 Una Jeffers To Dorothy Brett. The Collected Letters Of Robinson Jeffers. With Selected Letters Of Una Jeffers. Stanford, Volume 3, p. 410:

     […] it means when a person lacks his sense of smell. I'm glad I'm not snoof.

   • 1955. John Galsworthy. A Modern Comedy. C. Scribner's sons, p. 799:

     Luckily, they're all `snoof.`" "What?" said Michael ... One says 'deaf,' 'blind,' 'dumb'—why not `snoof`?"

   • 1966. By Monroe C. Beardsley. Thinking Straight; Principles of Reasoning for Readers and Writers. By Monroe C. Beardsley. Prentice-Hall, p. 292:

     And the word "snoof" has been brought forth (by an analogy with "deaf") to describe someone who is devoid of, or deficient in, the sense of smell.

   • 1994. Diana Starr Cooper. Night After Night. Island Press, p. 127:

     My mother-in-law, Louise Field Cooper, used the word snoof to convey some of this meaning, as in “he has such a bad cold he's gone totally snoof.

Anagrams

• foons

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -o?f

Verb

snoof

1. singular past indicative of snuiven

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