Overall, the amount of alcohol someone drinks over time, not the type of alcoholic beverage, seems to be the most important factor in raising cancer risk. Most evidence suggests that it is the ethanol that increases the risk, not other things in the drink.
Noun. 1. snoot-a person regarded as arrogant and annoying. prig, snob, snot. disagreeable person, unpleasant person-a person who is not pleasant or agreeable.
5. So when you hear that snoods are trendy again, don't go out and buy a hairnet or, God forbid, a beard snood. What you want to look for are tubular looking scarves resembling a turtleneck collar, like these from Banana Republic.. Basically, snood means hairnet. If you watch some old black-and-white photos, movies or look at fashionable vintage ads, you may have seen women wearing snoods. Snoods were seen as more stylish than a hairnet in terms of pulling the hair away from the face.