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.

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

large snake

big snake

supernatural power

green snake

fabulous serpent

legless reptile

circumvolute

death adder

black-headed python

tree snake

shatter crack

currency snake

Joe Blake

fishing wire

pull wire

white flake

Naga

king brown snake

anaconda

bend

black

black and white

brown

carpet

caterpillar

🐛

cobra

constrictor

corkscrew

crawl

creep

crocodile

🐊

curve

entwine

flake

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.