hood

English Online Dictionary. What means hood‎? What does hood mean?

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hʊd/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): [hʊ̈d], [hɪ̈d]
• Rhymes: -ʊd

Etymology 1

From Middle English hood, hod, from Old English hōd, from Proto-Germanic *hōdaz (cognate with Saterland Frisian Houd, West Frisian/Dutch hoed, German Low German Hood, German Hut). Cognate with Proto-Iranian *xawdaH (“hat”) (compare Avestan 𐬑𐬂𐬛𐬀 (xåda), Old Persian 𐎧𐎢𐎭 (x-u-d /⁠xaudā⁠/)), from Proto-Indo-European *kadʰ- (“to cover”). More at hat.

Noun

hood (plural hoods)

1. A covering for the head, usually attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak.
   1. (falconry) A head covering placed on falcons to inhibit their vision.
   2. (equestrianism) A head and neck covering placed on horses to protect against insects and sunlight, to slow coat growth and for warmth.

      Synonym: blinder

2. A distinctively colored fold of material, representing a university degree.
3. An enclosure that protects something, especially from above.
4. Particular parts of conveyances
   1. (automotive, chiefly UK) A soft top of a convertible car or carriage.
   2. (automotive, chiefly US, Canada) The hinged cover over the engine of a motor vehicle, known as a bonnet in other countries.

      Synonyms: cowl, bonnet

   3. (by extension, especially in the phrase "under the hood") A cover over the engine, driving machinery or inner workings of something.
   4. A metal covering that leads to a vent to suck away smoke or fumes.
   5. (nautical) One of the endmost planks (or, one of the ends of the planks) in a ship’s bottom at bow or stern, that fits into the rabbet. (These, when fit into the rabbet, resemble a hood (covering).)
5. Various body parts
   1. (ophiology) An expansion on the sides of the neck typical for many elapids e.g. the Egyptian cobra (Naja haje) and Indian cobra (Naja naja).
   2. (colloquial) The osseous or cartilaginous marginal extension behind the back of many a dinosaur such as a ceratopsid and reptiles such as Chlamydosaurus kingii.

      Synonym: frill
   3. In the human hand, over the extensor digitorum, an expansion of the extensor tendon over the metacarpophalangeal joint (the extensor hood syn. dorsal hood syn. lateral hood)
   4. (colloquial) The prepuce; the foreskin or clitoral hood.

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See also

• cuculliform (hood-shaped)

Verb

hood (third-person singular simple present hoods, present participle hooding, simple past and past participle hooded)

1. (transitive) To cover (something) with a hood.

   Antonym: unhood

2. (transitive) To extend out from (something), in the manner of a hood.
3. (intransitive, of skin and soft tissue) To grow over the eyelid but not the eye itself.

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Etymology 2

Clipping of hoodlum.

Noun

hood (plural hoods)

1. (slang) Gangster, thug.

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Etymology 3

Clipping of neighborhood; compare nabe.

Alternative forms

• 'hood

Adjective

hood (not comparable)

1. Relating to inner-city everyday life, both positive and negative aspects; especially people’s attachment to and love for their neighborhoods.

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Noun

hood (plural hoods)

1. (African-American Vernacular, slang) A neighborhood.
2. (slang) Any poor suburb or neighbourhood.

   Synonyms: (offensive) ghetto, (vulgar) shithole

Usage notes

• Particularly used for poor US inner-city black neighborhoods. Also used more generally, as a casual neutral term for neighborhood, but marked by strong associations.

Synonyms

• (poor neighborhood, esp. black): ghetto
• (neighborhood): nabe, neighborhood

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Etymology 4

Clipping of hoodie, influenced by existing sense “hoodlum”.

Noun

hood (plural hoods)

1. (UK) Person wearing a hoodie.

Anagrams

• Hodo, hodo-

Manx

Pronoun

hood (emphatic form hoods)

1. (informal) second-person singular of hug

   to you

Middle English

Alternative forms

• hode, hod, hude, hudde, hoode

Etymology

From Old English hōd, from Proto-Germanic *hōdaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hoːd/
• Rhymes: -oːd

Noun

hood (plural hoodes)

1. hood (part of a garment):
   1. A hood as a symbol of rank (of the church and of guilds).
   2. A hood made of chain mail used as head armour.
2. (rare, Late Middle English) Any sort of protective cloaking or covering.

Derived terms

• hoden
• hoder
• hodles
• hodynge

Descendants

• English: hood
• Scots: hude, huid

References

• “họ̄d, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-12.

North Frisian

Alternative forms

• Haur (Sylt)

Etymology

From Old Frisian hāved.

Noun

hood n (plural (Föhr-Amrum) hööd or (Mooring) hoode)

1. (Föhr-Amrum, Mooring) head

   at hood sködle ― to shake one's head