The difference between Hairnet and Snood

When used as nouns, hairnet means a net designed to keep hair up and out of the way, e.g. while cooking, whereas snood means 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.


Snood is also verb with the meaning: to keep the hair in place with a snood.

check bellow for the other definitions of Hairnet and Snood

  1. Hairnet as a noun:

    A net designed to keep hair up and out of the way, e.g. while cooking.

  1. Snood as a 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. Snood as a noun:

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

  3. Snood as a noun:

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

  4. Snood as a 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. Snood as a noun:

    A piece of clothing to keep the neck warm; neckwarmer.

  1. Snood as a verb:

    To keep the hair in place with a snood.