snood

Etymology

From Middle English snod, from Old English snōd (“headdress, fillet, snood”), from Proto-Germanic *snōdō (“rope, string”), from Proto-Indo-European *snoh₁téh₂ (“yarn, thread”), from *sneh₁(i)- (“to twist, wind, weave, plait”). Cognate with Scots snuid (“snood”), Swedish snod, snodd (“twist, twine”). Compare also Old Saxon snōva (“necklace”), Old Norse snúa (“to turn, twist”), snúðr (“a twist, twirl”), English needle.

noun

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.
   Frida … tied her hair in the Grecian snood which her lover used to admire so. 1895, R. D. Blackmore, chapter 9, in Frida, or, The Lover’s Leap, A Legend of the West Country, Dodd, Mead and Company, paragraph 1
2. A small hairnet or cap worn by women to keep their hair in place.
   serious girls with their hair in snoods entered numbers into logbooks […] 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 264
3. The flap of erectile red skin on the beak of a male turkey.
   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. 2000, Gary Clancy, Turkey Hunting Tactics, page 8
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.

verb

1. To keep the hair in place with a snood.
   Janet has kilted her green kirtle A little aboon her knee, And she has snooded her yellow hair 1792, Robert Burns, "Tam Lin" (a Scottish popular ballad)