snake
//sneɪk//
Forms
- Plural
- snakes
- present (v1)
- snake
- past (v2)
- snaked
- past participle (v3)
- snaked
- present participle
- snaking
- 3rd person singular
- snakes
Definitions
1.Any of the suborder Serpentes of legless reptiles with long, thin bodies and fork-shaped tongues.
- The man writhed like a trampled snake, and a red foam bubbled from his lips.
- After dark the train is a lighted snake, as, even when the passengers' lights are out, each carriage has a side-light in the middle just under the eaves.
2.A person who acts deceitfully for personal or social gain; a treacherous person.
- Well, if it was Moore, he's a fucking snake.
- Mrs. Kenwigs was horror-stricken to think that she should ever have nourished in her bosom such a snake, adder, viper, serpent, and base crocodile, as Henrietta Petowker.
3.A tool for unclogging plumbing.
- There's a snake in the garden.
- The snake swallowed a frog.
4.A tool to aid cable pulling.
- There's a snake in the garden.
- The snake swallowed a frog.
1.To follow or move in a winding route.
- The path snaked through the forest.
- The river snakes through the valley.
- Any Brisbane female interested in snaking down a few beers whilst watching the footy on a big screen?
2.To steal slyly.(slang)
- 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.To clean using a plumbing snake.
4.To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with out.(informal)
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3708
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
From Middle English snake, from Old English snaca (“snake, serpent, reptile”), from Proto-West Germanic *snakō (“slider, snake”), from *snakan (“to creep, slide”), related to Old High German snahhan (“to sneak, slide”). Compare also Proto-Germanic *snēkô (“creeper, crawler”).