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Oct 9, 2008 This week's theme There is a word for it This week's words hypergelast skeuomorph hey rube snood serein Today's word in Visual Thesaurus Snood Photo: Debbie Roos, North Carolina Cooperative Extension Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg snood PRONUNCIATION: (snood) MEANING: noun: 1. A fleshy appendage over the beak of a turkey. 2. A net for holding a woman's hair at the back of her head. ETYMOLOGY: From Old English snod. USAGE: "She unloaded groceries from her car one day and returned to find a tom -- caruncles and snood ablaze in red." Clara Germani; Not Wild About the Turkeys; The Christian Science Monitor (Boston, Massachusetts); Nov 21, 2005. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Language is an anonymous, collective and unconscious art; the result of the creativity of thousands of generations. -Edward Sapir, anthropologist and linguist (1884-1939)

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