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snake

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See also:Snake

English

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Yellow anaconda (Eunectes notaeus)

Alternative forms

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  • (internet slang, childish, jocular)snek

Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishsnake, fromOld Englishsnaca(“snake, serpent, reptile”), fromProto-West Germanic*snakō(“slider, snake”), from*snakan(“to creep, slide”), related toOld High Germansnahhan(“to sneak, slide”). Compare alsoProto-Germanic*snēkô(“creeper, crawler”).

Cognate withGerman Low GermanSnake,Snaak(“snake”), dialectalGermanSchnake(“adder”),Danishsnog(“grass snake”),Swedishsnok(“grass snake”),Norwegian Nynorsksnåk(“viper, adder”),Faroesesnákur(“grass snake”),Icelandicsnákur(“snake”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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snake (pluralsnakes)

  2. Any of the suborderSerpentes ofleglessreptile with long, thin bodies and fork-shaped tongues.
    Synonyms:joe blake,serpent
    • 1892,Oscar Wilde,A House of Pomegranates‎[1]:
      The man writhed like a trampledsnake, and a red foam bubbled from his lips.
    • 1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, inRailway Magazine, page263:
      After dark the train is a lightedsnake, as, even when the passengers' lights are out, each carriage has a side-light in the middle just under the eaves.
  4. (figurative) A person who acts deceitfully for personal or social gain; atreacherous person.
    Hypernyms:jerk <person;see alsoThesaurus:jerk
    Hyponym:snake in the grass
    Near-synonyms:rat;see alsoThesaurus:betrayer
    • 1838 March –1839 October,Charles Dickens,The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London:Chapman and Hall, […], published1839,→OCLC:
      Mrs. Kenwigs was horror-stricken to think that she should ever have nourished in her bosom such asnake, adder, viper, serpent, and base crocodile, as Henrietta Petowker.
    • 2021, Peter McKenna, 5:51 from the start, inKin, season 1, episode 2, spoken by Frank Kinsella (Aidan Gillen):
      Well, if it was Moore, he's a fuckingsnake.
    • 2025 August 26, Jon Henley, “Old master painting looted by Nazis spotted in Argentinian property listing”, inThe Guardian‎[2],→ISSN:
      [Friedrich] Kadgien—described by US interrogators as “not a true Nazi” but “asnake of the lowest sort”—subsequently left Switzerland for Brazil then Argentina, the paper said, where he started a company and a family and died in 1978, aged 71.
  5. Atool for uncloggingplumbing.
    Synonyms:auger,plumber's snake
  6. A tool to aidcable pulling.
    Synonym:wirepuller
  7. (UK, Australia) A flavouredjube (confectionary) in the shape of a snake.
  8. (slang)Trouser snake; thepenis.
    Synonym:trouser snake
  9. (mathematics) A series ofBézier curves.
  10. (cartomancy) The seventhLenormand card.
  11. (African-American Vernacular, MLE, MTE) Aninformer; arat.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:informant
    Gem’s asnake for Kamale, man.
    • 2017 April 7, “War Dub”, performed by Little T (Josh Tate):
      Yo, bare people and thesnakes, yeah, they're just grass / Next minute you're the mate, yeah / Next day stab in the back
  12. (finance, historical)Ellipsis ofsnake in the tunnel.
    • 2001, W. Bonefeld,The Politics of Europe: Monetary Union and Class, page69:
      Thesnake failed to provide an anchor for currency stability and, through it, disinflation.
  13. Ellipsis ofblack snake(“firework that creates a trail of ash”).

Derived terms

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Descendants

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Translations

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legless reptile
treacherous person
plumbing tool
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Verb

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snake (third-person singular simple presentsnakes,present participlesnaking,simple past and past participlesnaked)

  1. (intransitive) To follow ormove in awinding route.
    Synonyms:slither,wind
    The pathsnaked through the forest.
    The riversnakes through the valley.
    • 1996 September 24, Mark Addinall, “Football fever...”, inaus.personals‎[3] (Usenet):
      Any Brisbane female interested insnaking down a few beers whilst watching the footy on a big screen?
    • 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Bournemouth (circa 1880)”, inRAIL, number947, pages59–60:
      Opened in June of that year [1880], the station was the southern terminus of the much-lamented Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway (the S&D or 'Slow and Dirty'), whichsnaked its way down from Bath.
  2. (transitive, Australia, slang) To steal slyly.
    Hesnaked my DVD!
    • 2001 April 5, Hyena, “Home made supercharger ?”, inaus.cars‎[4] (Usenet):
      Although it wouldn't be the first time some one patented an idea that I'd had a year earlier.[…]Someone already has :)[…]F*CK ME !!Snaked again !
  3. (transitive) Toclean using a plumbing snake.
  4. (US, informal) To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often without.
    • November 27 1835, N.B. St. John,letter to George Thompson
      his wife and children shall not be forced to flee from the hearth of a friend, lest they should besnaked out by men in civic authority
  5. (nautical) To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; toworm.
  6. (African-American Vernacular, MLE) To inform; torat; often without.
    He says he didn'tsnake and I believe him.

Derived terms

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Translations

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to move in a winding path

See also

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Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromOld Englishsnaca, fromProto-West Germanic*snakō.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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snake (pluralsnakes orsnaken orsnake)

  1. snake
  2. serpent

Descendants

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  • English:snake (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots:snake

References

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