# hooded

Pronunciation: say "HUU-did" /ˈhʊdɪd/

## Adjective

1. Of a garment, having a hood attached to it.
   - Simple: Having a hood, said of clothes like coats and jackets.
   - _A hooded parka is the best defense against the wind on the ridge._
   - _The store's hooded rain capes sold out within a week._
2. Wearing a hood, with the head covered by it.
   - Simple: Wearing a hood on your head.
   - _A hooded figure slipped out of the alley and vanished into the crowd._
   - _Hooded monks filed silently into the chapel for evening prayers._
3. Of the eyes, having thick eyelids that droop over them.
   - Simple: Having thick eyelids that hang low over the eyes.
   - _Makeup artists often use a lighter shadow to open up hooded eyes._
   - _He studied his cards through hooded eyes, giving nothing away._
4. Having a hood placed over it as a covering.
   - Simple: Covered by a hood that has been put over it.
   - _A hooded hawk stays calm because it cannot see what is going on around it._
   - _Hooded headlights threw only a thin strip of light onto the blacked-out road._
6. Of an animal, having a crest or a similar stretch of elastic skin, muscle or bone on the neck or behind the head.
   - Simple: Having a crest or a stretchy flap on the neck or behind the head, said of animals.
   - _The hooded cobra reared up and flared its neck at the intruder._
   - _Hooded lizards spread the loose skin behind their heads to look bigger to rivals._
7. Formed in the shape of a hood.
   - Simple: Having the shape of a hood.
   - _Each blossom bears a hooded upper petal that arches over the stamens._
   - _Waves had worn the cliff into a hooded overhang above the beach._
8. Of a fancy rat, having one unbroken line of color running from the whole head down the spine, sometimes continuing toward the tail.
   - Simple: Of a pet rat, having color on the whole head and in one unbroken line down the back.
   - _We adopted two hooded rats from the shelter, one black and one gray._
   - _The breeder's best hooded doe had a stripe that ran unbroken all the way to her tail._
9. Uncircumcised. *(slang)*
   - Simple: Not circumcised.
   - _On the forum, one man asked whether being hooded had ever bothered his partners._
   - _He grinned and said that, unlike his brothers, he was still hooded._

## Verb

5. Simple past and past participle of hood. — simple past and past participle of hood
   - Simple: Simple past and past participle of hood. Use it for something that happened before now.
   - _The guards hooded the prisoners before loading them onto the truck._
   - _A broad stone ledge hooded the cave's entrance and kept the floor inside dry._

## Origin

Formed from hood + -ed.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/hooded (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).