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Snood vs Shood - What's the difference?

snood | shood |

As verbs the difference between snood and shood

is that snood is to keep the hair in place with a snood while shood is eye dialect of lang=en.

As a noun 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.

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,

    shood

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1876, author=R M Ballantyne, title=Under the Waves, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=It ran thus:-- "Deer Sur,--i thinks it unkomon 'ard that a man shood 'ave is beed sold under im wen anuther man oas im munny, speshally wen is wifes ill--praps a-dyin--the Law has washt yoo sur, but it do seam 'ard on me, if yoo cood spair ony a pownd or two id taik it kind. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1891, author=Various, title=Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, July 11, 1891, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=And in case the estonishing site shood make him feel just a leetle dazed, the jolly old Copperashun has bin and gone and hired no less than three Millingterry Bands of Music to play to him, and cheer him up. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1918, author=J. Arthur Gibbs, title=A Cotswold Village, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Aal the village know'd I wur a-gwain, an' sum sed as how I shood be murthur'd avoor I cum back. }}

    Verb

    (head)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1903, author=Burt L. Standish, title=Frank Merriwell's Bravery, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="Look here, mine friendt," calmly said the Jew, as the crowd began to scatter to get out of the way of stray bullets, "uf you shood ad me, id vill profe dat you vas a plowhardt und a cowart. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=George Washington Cable, title=Old Creole Days, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="No," said the tender old man, "no, bud h-I am positeef dad de Madjor will shood you." }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1915, author=Thomas Alexander Browne, AKA Rolf Boldrewood, title=Robbery Under Arms, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Subbose you shood us all, what then? }}