snod

American  

[snod] / snɒd /

adjective

Scot. and North England.

1. smooth; sleek.

2. neat; tidy.

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Other Word Forms

• snodly adverb

Etymology

Origin of snod

1470–80; perhaps < Scandinavian; compare Old Norse snothin bald, snauthr bare, bald

Example Sentences

He went on: “And you consate that all these steans be aboon folk that be happed here, snod an’ snog?”

From Literature

Should the badger, however, be able to escape to its place of refuge in the barrel, even for a minute or two, the onlooker is surprised to find it turn out again as "snod" and clean, as if the dragging process through the dirt had never been undergone.

From Project Gutenberg

King was to come out here last night, but Mrs. Snod says he was afraid Chester would think he was running from the field, and so he stayed on at the hotel.

From Project Gutenberg

His breakfast o'er, auld Inglis tak's the road, Frae tap to tae weel buskit an' fell snod; His hardin sark as white's the driven snaw— The lint was fernyear grown beside the shaw; His coat an' breeks war' o' a lichtly blue, Weel waukit, an' the pick o' hame-grown woo; His hose war' rig an' fur, a guid grow grey; His bonnet blue, an's shoon as black's a slae.

From Project Gutenberg

He was very smartly set upon one day, and told how snod a wife would keep him, and many other fine things to induce him to take a wife, and among the rest, what a comfort it would be to him, if it was for naething else but to make his parritch in the morning.

From Project Gutenberg