different between fishhook vs snood

English

Alternative forms

• fish hook

Etymology

From Middle English fisch-hook, from Old English *fisch?c (“fishhook”), equivalent to fish +? hook. Cognate with Dutch vishaak (“fishhook”). In the sense of a jack (playing card), refers to the shape of the letter J on the card.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f???h?k/

Noun

fishhook (plural fishhooks)

1. a barbed hook, usually metal, used for fishing

   Synonyms: angle, fishing hook, hook

2. (slang) a jack (the playing card)

Translations

References

• Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ?ISBN

English

Alternative forms

• snod, sneed

Etymology

From Middle English snod, from Old English sn?d (“headdress, fillet, snood”), from Proto-Germanic *sn?d? (“rope, string”), from Proto-Indo-European *snoh?téh? (“yarn, thread”), from *sneh?(i)- (“to twist, wind, weave, plait”). Cognate with Scots snuid (“snood”), Swedish snod, snodd (“twist, twine”). Compare also Old Saxon sn?va (“necklace”), Old Norse snúa (“to turn, twist”), snúðr (“a twist, twirl”), English needle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /snu?d/
• Rhymes: -u?d

Noun

snood (plural snoods)

1. 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.
2. A small hairnet or cap worn by women to keep their hair in place.

   Hypernym: hairnet

   Hyponym: shpitzel

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 264:

     serious girls with their hair in snoods entered numbers into logbooks […]

3. The flap of erectile red skin on the beak of a male turkey.

   Coordinate terms: caruncle, comb, cockscomb, crest, wattle

   • 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.

4. A short line of horsehair, gut, monofilament, etc., by which a fishhook is attached to a longer (and usually heavier) line; a snell.
5. A piece of clothing to keep the neck warm; neckwarmer.

Translations

Verb

snood (third-person singular simple present snoods, present participle snooding, simple past and past participle snooded)

1. 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,

Translations

Further reading

• snood (headgear) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Ondos, donos, doons

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch snôde, from Old Dutch *sn?thi, from Proto-Germanic *snauþuz (“bald, naked, poor”), from Proto-Indo-European *ksnéw-tu-s, from the root *ksnew- (“to scrape, sharpen”). Cognates include German schnöde and Old Norse snauðr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sno?t/
• Hyphenation: snood
• Rhymes: -o?t

Adjective

snood (comparative snoder, superlative snoodst)

1. villanous and criminal

Inflection

Derived terms

• snodelijk