snake

Betekenis

Noun

1. A legless reptile of the suborder Serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue.
2. A treacherous person; a rat.
3. A person who acts deceitfully for social gain.
4. A tool for unclogging plumbing.
5. A tool to aid cable pulling.
6. A flavoured jube (confectionary) in the shape of a snake.
7. (slang) Trouser snake; the penis.
8. A series of Bézier curves.
9. The seventh Lenormand card.
10. An informer; a rat.
11. Short for snake in the tunnel.
12. Short for black snake (“firework that creates a trail of ash”).

Verb

1. To follow or move in a winding route.
2. (slang) To steal slyly.
3. To clean using a plumbing snake.
4. (informal) To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with out.
5. 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; to worm.
6. To inform; to rat.

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/sneɪk/

Etymologie

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.