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hooded

UK/ˈhʊdɪd/US/ˈhʊdɪd/
adjectiveB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #11,997 of 15,258neutral

Hooded means wearing or fitted with a covering for the head. A hooded figure, a hooded jacket, hooded and masked.

A hooded figure is the standard phrase in both crime reports and ghost stories, since a hood hides a face without hiding a person. In birds it names a marking, as with the hooded crow of Scotland and Ireland.

Jorge Fernández jorge9200 · CC0

Definitions of hooded

  1. 1adjectivehoodedWearing or fitted with a covering for the head.B2+

    “He zipped up his hooded jacket and ran out into the rain.”

hooded is a state.

Where it comes from

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *kadʰ- — to cover

  2. Proto-Germanic

    *hōdaz

  3. Proto-West Germanic

    *hōd

  4. Old English

    hōd

  5. Middle English

    hood

  6. English

    hood

  7. English, today

    hooded

From hood + -ed. hood comes 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 stq Houd (“hat; hood”), West Frisian and Dutch hoed (“hat”), cim huat, huut (“hat”), German Hut (“hat”), German Low German Hood (“hat; hood”), lb Hutt (“hat”); also ira-pro xawdaH (“hat”) (ae 𐬑𐬂𐬛𐬀, peo 𐎧𐎢𐎭). More at hat.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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hooded in the wild

  • The Genii Cucullati (singular Genius Cucullatus), or Hooded Spirits, are hooded figures found in the religious art of the Roman-period Celtic world, from Britain to the Danube provinces.

    Hooded Spirits

  • The hooded vulture (Necrosyrtes monachus) is an Old World vulture in the order Accipitriformes, which also includes eagles, kites, buzzards and hawks.

    Hooded vulture

  • The highest current regional density of hooded vultures is in the western region of The Gambia.

    Hooded vulture

  • In 2002, the hooded crow was separated from the carrion crow and classified as its own species by the British Ornithologists' Union.

    Hooded crow

  • The hooded merganser has a sawbill but is not classified as a typical merganser.

    Hooded merganser

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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