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Crawling vs Slithering - What's the difference?

crawling | slithering |

As verbs the difference between crawling and slithering

is that crawling is while slithering is .

As nouns the difference between crawling and slithering

is that crawling is the motion of something that crawls while slithering is the act of one who slithers.

crawling

English

(wikipedia crawling)

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The motion of something that crawls.
  • * Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop
    • Miss Brass devoted herself with uncommon ardour to the study of the law; not wasting her speculations upon its eagle flights, which are rare, but tracing it attentively through all the slippery and eel-like crawlings in which it commonly pursues its way.

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    slithering

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who slithers.
  • * 2003 , Sarah Kay, ?Terence Cave, ?Malcolm Bowie, A Short History of French Literature (page 263)
    • Here, ValĂ©ry is of the devil's party, and boasts of it throughout a long catalogue of serpentine slitherings and insinuations. To be a snake, the protagonist announces, is to be a thinker, to live by one's wits