snake

Meaning

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.

Concepts

snake

serpent

viper

worm

slither

zigzag

reptile

ophidian

python

meander

wind

adder

poisonous

dragon

curl

spiral

wreathe

snake in the grass

entwine

loop

alahuberen

caterpillar

death adder

king brown snake

advance slowly

crawl

creep

bend

curve

legless reptile

Naga

fabulous serpent

vermin

Joe Blake

currency snake

tree snake

black-headed python

anaconda

big snake

large snake

draft line

fishing wire

pull wire

fish eye

fisheye

flake

shatter crack

snowflake

white flake

constrictor

black

brown

carpet

green

black and white

sea snake

circumvolute

corkscrew

squirm

twist

wrestle

wriggle

writhe

sheer

slalom

thread

scorpion

spiteful person

rainbow

cobra

crocodile

poisonous snake

wriggler

blue racer

snakes

magic

supernatural power

witch

rattlesnake

green snake

Snake

striped

generic

long

generic name

Pronounced as (IPA)

/sneɪk/

Etymology

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.