hood
/hʊd/ noun, verb, adjective, proper noun
Forms hoods hooding hooded 'hood
- noun (falconry) A head covering placed on falcons to inhibit their vision.
- noun (equestrianism) A head and neck covering placed on horses to protect against insects and sunlight, to slow coat growth and for warmth.
- noun A distinctively colored fold of material, representing a university degree.
- noun An enclosure that protects something, especially from above.
- noun (automotive, chiefly UK) A soft top of a convertible car or carriage.
- noun (automotive, chiefly US, Canada) The hinged cover over the engine of a motor vehicle, known as a bonnet in other countries.
- noun (by extension, especially in the phrase "under the hood") A cover over the engine, driving machinery or inner workings of something.
- noun A metal covering that leads to a vent to suck away smoke or fumes.
- verb (transitive) To cover (something) with a hood.
- verb (transitive) To extend out from (something), in the manner of a hood.
- verb (intransitive, of skin and soft tissue) To grow over the eyelid but not the eye itself.
- noun (slang) Gangster, thug.
- adjective Relating to inner-city everyday life, both positive and negative aspects; especially people’s attachment to and love for their neighborhoods.
- noun (African-American Vernacular, slang) A neighborhood. “What’s goin’ down in the hood?”
- noun (slang) Any poor suburb or neighbourhood.
- noun (UK) Person wearing a hoodie.
- proper noun A surname.
- proper noun A census-designated place in Sacramento County, California, United States.
- proper noun An unincorporated community in Madison County, Virginia, United States.
Synonyms
blinder cowl motorhood bonnet frill ghetto nabe neighborhood shithole hoodlum goon punk thug tough toughie strong-armer cap lens hood exhaust hood cowling
Antonyms
Etymology
From Middle English hood, hod, from Old English hōd, from Proto-West Germanic *hōd, from Proto-Germanic *hōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kadʰ- (“to cover”).
See also Saterland Frisian Houd (“hat; hood”), West Frisian and Dutch hoed (“hat”), Cimbrian huat, huut (“hat”), German Hut (“hat”), German Low German Hood (“hat; hood”), Luxembourgish Hutt (“hat”); also Proto-Iranian *xawdaH (“hat”) (Avestan 𐬑𐬂𐬛𐬀 (xåda), Old Persian 𐎧𐎢𐎭 (x-u-d /xaudā/)). More at hat.
Clipping of hoodlum.
Clipping of neighborhood; compare nabe.
Clipping of hoodie, influenced by existing sense “hoodlum”.
Webster’s 1913
- noun State; condition. [Obs.]
- noun A covering or garment for the head or the head and shoulders, often attached to the body garment; especially: (a) A soft covering for the head, worn by women, which leaves only the face exposed.
- verb To cover with a hood; to furnish with a hood or hood-shaped appendage.
- verb To cover; to hide; to blind.
Etymology [OE. hood, hod, AS. hod; akin to D. hoed hat, G. hut, OHG. huot, also to E. hat, and prob. to E. heed. sq. root13.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “hood”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details