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Snob vs Snood - What's the difference?

snob | snood |

As nouns the difference between snob and snood

is that snob is while 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.

As a verb snood is

to keep the hair in place with a snood.

snob

English

Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia snob)
  • (colloquial) A cobbler or shoemaker.
  • * 1929 , (Frederic Manning), The Middle Parts of Fortune , Vintage 2014, p. 57:
    • The snobs were also kind to him, and gave him a pair of boots which they assured him were of a type and quality reserved entirely for officers […].
  • (dated) A member of the lower classes; a commoner.
  • * 1844 , (Charles Dickens), Martin Chuzzlewit :
    • 'D'ye know a slap-up sort of button, when you see it?' said the youth. 'Don't look at mine, if you ain't a judge, because these lions' heads was made for men of men of taste: not snobs .'
  • * 1913 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), The Poison Belt :
    • I tell you, sir, that I have a brain of my own, and that I should feel myself to be a snob and a slave if I did not use it.
  • (informal) A person who wishes to be seen as a member of the upper classes and who looks down on those perceived to have inferior or unrefined tastes.
  • * 1958 , (Arnold Wesker), Roots :
    • If wanting the best things in life means being a snob' then glory hallelujah I'm a ' snob .

    Derived terms

    * snobbery * snobbish * snobby

    Coordinate terms

    * posh * social climber

    Anagrams

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    snood

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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
    • And seldom was a snood amid / Such wild, luxuriant ringlets hid.
  • * 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 264:
    • serious girls with their hair in snoods entered numbers into logbooks
  • The flap of red skin on the beak of a male turkey.
  • * 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.
  • 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.

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "snood")

    Coordinate terms

    * (flap of skin on an animal) caruncle, comb, cockscomb, crest, wattle

    Hypernyms

    * (hairnet) hairnet

    Hyponyms

    * (hairnet) shpitzel

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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,