Definitions for snoods

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Spelling: [snood]

IPA: /snud/

Snoods is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 47 anagrams from letters in snoods (dnooss).

Definitions for snoods

noun

1. the distinctive headband formerly worn by young unmarried women in Scotland and northern England.
2. a headband for the hair.
3. a netlike hat or part of a hat or fabric that holds or covers the back of a woman's hair.
4. the pendulous skin over the beak of a turkey.

verb (used with object)

1. to bind or confine (the hair) with a snood.

Origin of snoods

before 900; Middle English: fillet, ribbon; Old English snōd

Examples for snoods

A northern term for a snood or link of horse-hair for a fishing-line.

The hair is parted and worn low in a snood, or by young women, flowing.

It is the rich materials of snood, plaid, and brooch that betray her birth.

A snood or fillet of blue ribbon confined her luxuriant hair.

Her hair was bound with the "snood," the usual head-dress of Scottish maidens.

A snood, or bandeau of riband or worsted tape, was the only head-dress for maidens.

If the snood does not break you have him dangling in the air.

He stooped, and in the reeds he found an inch-long fragment of ribbon—of a snood.

Tied round the wimple they sometimes had a snood, or band of silk.

Now your snood is slipping over his nose; it tickles him; he enjoys it, and shuts his eyes.