Snoof vs Snood - What's the difference?

As an adjective snoof

is having lost the sense of smell.

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.

As a verb snood is

to keep the hair in place with a snood.

snoof

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Having lost the sense of smell.

* 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

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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,