hood
pronunciation
How to pronounce hood in British English:
UK [hʊd]
How to pronounce hood in American English:
US [hʊd]
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- Noun:
- an aggressive and violent young criminal
- metal covering leading to a vent that exhausts smoke or fumes
- the folding roof of a carriage
- a headdress that protects the head and face
- protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine
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- Verb:
- cover with a hood
Word Origin
- hood
- hood: [OE] Ultimately hood and hat are the same word, and both mean etymologically ‘headcovering’. They go back to an Indo-European *kadh- ‘cover, protect’, which in the case of hood produced a West Germanic derivative *khōdaz. From it are descended German hut ‘hat’, Dutch hoed ‘hat’, and English hood. Hoodwink [16] originally meant literally ‘cover someone’s eyes with a hood or blindfold so that they could not see’; the modern figurative sense ‘deceive’ is first recorded in the 17th century.=> hat
- hood (n.1)
- "covering," Old English hod "hood," from Proto-Germanic *hodaz (cognates: Old Saxon, Old Frisian hod "hood," Middle Dutch hoet, Dutch hoed "hat," Old High German huot "helmet, hat," German Hut "hat," Old Frisian hode "guard, protection"), from PIE *kadh- "cover" (see hat). Modern spelling is early 1400s to indicate a "long" vowel, which is no longer pronounced as such. Meaning "removable cover for an automobile engine" attested by 1905. Little Red Riding Hood (1729) translates Charles Perrault's Petit Chaperon Rouge ("Contes du Temps Passé" 1697).
- hood (n.2)
- "gangster," 1930, American English, shortened form of hoodlum.
- hood (v.)
- "to put a hood on," c. 1200, from hood (n.1). Related: Hooded; hooding.
- hood (n.3)
- shortened form of neighborhood, by 1987, U.S. black slang.
Example
- 1. The camera will click from under that black hood .
- 2. Next you need to change the color of the hood .
- 3. Lau followed on his tail , and saw a gloveless hand and a woman 's face half-obscured by a black hood .
- 4. For a little variety , she swapped coleslaw for lettuce and tomato and called that one the hood burger .
- 5. Consumer reports slammed it : the bonnet ( hood to americans ) came loose , the rear window-washer quit , the ignition switch broke and the brakes squealed , the review complained .