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▪ I. snod, a. Sc. and north. dial.|snɒd|
Also 7 snoode (?).
[Of obscure origin: the stem may be the same as that of ON. snoðinn bald (Norw. snoden bare).]
1. Smooth, sleek; even. Also absol.
c1480Henryson Fables, Wolf & Sheep viii, He wald chais thame baith throw rouch and snod. 1513Douglas æneid v. xiii. 24 His awin heid warpit with a snod olive, Heich in a schippis forcastell [he] did stand. a1585Polwart Flyting w. Montgomerie 562 Foot-foundred beasts..Hes not their hair sa snod as other good. 1641Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 4 Howe to choose a good Tuppe. Lett him bee..of a snoode and goode stapple. 1692A. Symson in Macfarlane's Geogr. Coll. (S.H.S.) II. 102 The long beards and awnds are separated from the corne; and the corne made, as they terme it, more snod and easie to pass through the mill. 1695Kennett Par. Antiq. Gloss. s.v. Snodde, Wheat ears are said to be snod when they have no beard or awns. And a tree is snod when the top is cut smooth off. 1781J. Hutton Tour to Caves (ed. 2) Gloss. 96 Snod, smooth. 1790Mrs. Wheeler Westm. Dial. (1821) 18 A lile stiff fello, wie a varra snod feace. 1862C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds 416 A snod piece o' cloath—as snod as a bit o' silk!
Comb.1855Waugh Life & Local. 201 Rough and free as so many snod-backed young modiwarps. 1898A. Ollivant Owd Bob xiii. 117 Ye ox-limbed, snod-faced profleegit!
2. Of persons: Neat, tidy, trim, smart, spruce.
1691Ray N.C. Words 66 Snod,..neat, handsome. 1719Ramsay To Arbuckle 71 A black-a-vic'd snod dapper fallow. 1756M. Calderwood Jrnl. (1884) 194 The niece was a little, snod, fair lass. 1822Galt Provost xxvi, A tight and snod serving lassie. 1889Barrie Window in Thrums 14 Here comes the minister himsel', an' very snod he is.
b. Of things: Neat, trim, in good order.
1717Ramsay Elegy Lucky Wood iv, She..kept her housie snod and bein. 1785Hutton Bran New Wark 3 The gentleman that treads in black snod pumps. 1819W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 41 His velvet breeks,..The snoddest pairt o' his attire. 1837R. P. Gillies Recoll. Scott iii. ix. 199, I see ye're admiring how snod the library looks there. 1894Crockett Raiders xxii. (ed. 3) 195 My clothes were clean brushed and exceedingly neat and snod.
3. Comfortable, snug, cosy. Also as quasi-adv.
1695Kennett Par. Antiq. Gloss. s.v. Snodde, To lie snod and snug. 1888Barrie When a Man's Single (1900) 91/2 ‘Ay,’ he said, with a chuckle, ‘but I've a snod bit cornery up there for mysel'’.
▪ II. snod, v.|snɒd|
[f. prec.]
trans. To make smooth, trim, or neat; to tidy, put in order. Also with down, off, up.
1584Hudson Judith iv. 269 On stake and ryce, hee knits the crooked vines, And snoddes their bowes. a1774Fergusson Poems (1789) II. 7 Ye saw yoursel how weel his mailin' thrave, Ay better faugh'd an' snodit than the lave. 1791J. Learmont Poems 85 The ploughman cultivates the field, The mower snods the common. 1819Scott Let. in Lockhart (1837) IV. viii. 251, I have planted a number of shrubs,..and am snodding up the drive of the old farm house. 1865G. Macdonald A. Forbes xxvi. 115 The..tallow candles..had..to be snodded laboriously. |