Snood vs Scarf - What's the difference?
snood | scarf |
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.
A small hairnet or cap worn by women to keep their hair in place.
* Sir Walter Scott
* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 264:
The flap of red skin on the beak of a male turkey.
* 2000 , Gary Clancy, Turkey Hunting Tactics , page 8
A short line of horsehair, gut, monofilament, etc., by which a fishhook is attached to a longer (and usually heavier) line; a snell.
A piece of clothing to keep the neck warm; neckwarmer.
To keep the hair in place with a snood.
* 1792 , (Robert Burns), "Tam Lin" (a Scottish popular ballad)
A long, often knitted, garment worn around the neck.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=2 A headscarf.
(dated) A neckcloth or cravat.
To throw on loosely; to put on like a scarf.
* 1599-1601 , (William Shakespeare), (Hamlet), Act 5, Scene 2:
To dress with a scarf, or as with a scarf; to cover with a loose wrapping.
A type of joint in woodworking.
A groove on one side of a sewing machine needle.
A dip or notch or cut made in the trunk of a tree to direct its fall when felling.
To shape by grinding.
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.
To unite, as two pieces of timber or metal, by a scarf joint.
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English nouns with irregular plurals
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As nouns the difference between snood and scarf
is that snood is 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 while scarf is a long, often knitted, garment worn around the neck.As verbs the difference between snood and scarf
is that snood is to keep the hair in place with a snood while scarf is to throw on loosely; to put on like a scarf.snood
English
Alternative forms
* (l), (l)Noun
(en noun)- And seldom was a snood amid / Such wild, luxuriant ringlets hid.
- serious girls with their hair in snoods entered numbers into logbooks
- 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.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "snood")Coordinate terms
* (flap of skin on an animal) caruncle, comb, cockscomb, crest, wattleHypernyms
* (hairnet) hairnetHyponyms
* (hairnet) shpitzelVerb
(en verb)- Janet has kilted her green kirtle
A little aboon her knee,
And she has snooded her yellow hair
A little aboon her bree,
scarf
English
(wikipedia scarf)Etymology 1
Probably from . http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/scarf?s=t. The verb is derived from the noun.Noun
(en-noun)citation, passage=Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.}}
Verb
(en verb)- My sea-gown scarfed about me.