snake

Meaning

Noun

1. Any of the suborder Serpentes of legless reptile with long, thin bodies and fork-shaped tongues.
2. (figuratively) A person who acts deceitfully for personal or social gain; a treacherous person.
3. A tool for unclogging plumbing.
4. A tool to aid cable pulling.
5. (Australia, UK) A flavoured jube (confectionary) in the shape of a snake.
6. (slang) Trouser snake; the penis.
7. A series of Bézier curves.
8. The seventh Lenormand card.
9. (Multicultural-London-English) An informer; a rat.
10. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, historical) Ellipsis of snake in the tunnel.
11. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of black snake (“firework that creates a trail of ash”).

Verb

1. (intransitive) To follow or move in a winding route.
2. (Australia, slang, transitive) To steal slyly.
3. (transitive) To clean using a plumbing snake.
4. (US, 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. (Multicultural-London-English) To inform; to rat; often with out.

Synonyms

serpent

viper

worm

🪱

slither

ophidian

reptile

python

zigzag

meander

adder

poisonous

wind

dragon

🐉

curl

snake in the grass

wreathe

spiral

generic

generic name

green

long

loop

➿

magic

🪄

poisonous snake

rainbow

🌈

rattlesnake

scorpion

🦂

sheer

slalom

snakes

snowflake

❄️

squirm

striped

thread

🧵

twist

vermin

witch

wrestle

wriggle

wriggler

writhe

advance slowly

alahuberen

blue racer

fisheye

fish eye

sea snake

Snake

🐍

spiteful person

draft line

Translations

serpent

🐍

Schlange

🐍

serpente

🐍

serpiente

🐍

culebra

🐍

slang

🐍

cobra

🐍

φίδι

serpente

serpens

yılan

🐍

serp

🐍

serpe

🐍

anguis

🐍

Pronounced as (IPA)

/sneɪk/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: snake

Inherited from Old English: snaca

Cognate with German: Schnake

Cognate with Swedish: snok

Cognate with Old High German: snahhan

Cognate with Sanskrit: नाग

In summary

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”).
Cognate with German Low German Snake, Snaak (“snake”), dialectal German Schnake (“adder”), Danish snog (“grass snake”), Swedish snok (“grass snake”), Norwegian Nynorsk snåk (“viper, adder”), Faroese snákur (“grass snake”), Icelandic snákur (“snake”).

Sentences

The snake fought frantically , making hissing sounds that shattered the silence of the desert .