hood

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

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• Rhymes: -ʊd

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 𐬀𐬛𐬂𐬑‎ (xåda), Old Persian 𐎧𐎢𐎭 (xaudā)), from Proto-Indo-European *kadʰ- (“to cover”). More at hat.

hood (plural hoods)

1. A covering for the head attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak.
2. A distinctively coloured fold of material, representing a university degree.
3. An enclosure that protects something, especially from above.
4. (automotive) A soft top of a convertible car or carriage.
5. (US, automotive) The hinged cover over the engine of a motor vehicle: known as a bonnet in other countries.
6. A metal covering that leads to a vent to suck away smoke or fumes.

• (engine cover): bonnet, cowl

• hood unit
• under the hood

• cuculliform (hood-shaped)

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

1. To cover something with a hood.

Clipping of hoodlum.

hood (plural hoods)

1. (slang) gangster, thug.

Clipping of neighborhood; compare nabe.

• 'hood

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.

hood (plural hoods)

1. (slang) neighborhood.

   What’s goin’ down in the hood?

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.

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

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

hood (plural hoods)

1. (Britain) person wearing a hoodie.

• Hodo, hodo-

hood (emphatic form hoods)

1. (informal) second-person singular of hug

   to you

• hode, hod, hude, hudde, hoode

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

• IPA^(key): /hoːd/
• Rhymes: -oːd

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.

• hoden
• hoder
• hodles
• hodynge

• English: hood
• Scots: hude, huid

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

From Old Frisian hâved.

hood n (plural hööd)

1. (Föhr-Amrum) (anatomy) head

   at hood sködle

   to shake one's head