snood

About 0.03 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. 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.
2. noun A small hairnet or cap worn by women to keep their hair in place.
3. noun The flap of erectile red skin on the beak of a male turkey.
4. noun A short line of horsehair, gut, monofilament, etc., by which a fishhook is attached to a longer (and usually heavier) line; a snell.
5. noun A piece of clothing to keep the neck warm; neckwarmer.
6. verb To keep the hair in place with a snood.

Similar words

fillet hairband net bobble neckband ropeband bindle sneck kerchief neckerchief

Often followed by

and of is or that to on in as

Word family

snooded snooding snoods