snake
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- A legless reptile of the suborder Serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue.
- A treacherous person; a rat.
- A person who acts deceitfully for social gain.
- A tool for unclogging plumbing.
- A tool to aid cable pulling.
- A flavoured jube (confectionary) in the shape of a snake.
- (slang) Trouser snake; the penis.
- A series of Bézier curves.
- The seventh Lenormand card.
- An informer; a rat.
- Short for snake in the tunnel.
- Short for black snake (“firework that creates a trail of ash”).
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/sneɪk/
Etimologia
From Middle English snake, from Old English snaca (“snake, serpent, reptile”), from Proto-West Germanic *snakō (“snake”) (compare German Low German Snake, Snaak (“snake”), dialectal German Schnake (“adder”), Swedish snok (“grass snake”), Icelandic snákur (“snake”)), derived via Proto-Germanic *snakô from Proto-Germanic *snakaną (“to crawl”) (compare Old High German snahhan), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neg- (“to crawl; a creeping thing”). Cognate with Sanskrit नाग (nāgá, “snake”)). Doublet of nāga.
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