At 12:33 AM 9/5/03 -0400, Tamara P. Duvall wrote: >Are you sure? It's been my understanding that the ethymology of this >one comes from 'hood -- as in neighbourhood...
And in my generation, "hood" was short for "hoodlum", which caused me considerable confusion when people started calling *themselves* hoods. It might well be that the meaning, rather than the form, of each version of "hood" comes from these contrasting etymologies. And I wonder if maybe "wearing a hood" came first, back in the seventeenth century. (According to my second-edition Merriam Webster, "hoodlum" originally meant an unpolished young male.) -- Joy Beeson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where it's sunny and not too warm. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
