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Snood vs Snoop - What's the difference?

snood | snoop |

As nouns the difference between snood and snoop

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 snoop is the act of snooping.

As verbs the difference between snood and snoop

is that snood is to keep the hair in place with a snood while snoop is to be devious and cunning so as not to be seen.

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,

    snoop

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be devious and cunning so as not to be seen.
  • To secretly spy on or investigate, especially into the private personal life of others.
    • If I had not snooped on her, I wouldn't have found out that she lied about her degree.

    Related terms

    * snoop around

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of snooping
  • One who snoops
    • Be careful what you say around Gene because he's the bosses' snoop .
  • A private detective
    • She hired a snoop to find out if her husband was having an affair.

    References

    * 1996, T.F. Hoad, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Etymology , Oxford University Press, ISBN 0192830988

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