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Snake vs Snaky - What's the difference?

snake | snaky |

As a noun snake

is a legless reptile of the sub-order serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue.

As a verb snake

is to follow or move in a winding route.

As an adjective snaky is

resembling or relating to snakes.

snake

English

(wikipedia snake)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A legless reptile of the sub-order Serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue.
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  • A treacherous person.
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  • A tool for unclogging plumbing.
  • A tool to aid cable pulling.
  • (slang) A trouser snake; the penis.

    • Synonyms

    * (reptile) joe blake, serpent * (plumbing tool) auger, plumber's snake * (tool for cable pulling) wirepuller

    Derived terms

    * snakebite * snake in the grass * snake oil

    Verb

    (snak)
  • To follow or move in a winding route.
    • The path snaked through the forest.
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    The river snakes through the valley.
  • (transitive, Australia, slang) To steal slyly.
    • He snaked my DVD!
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  • To clean using a plumbing snake.
  • (US, informal) To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with out .
    • (Bartlett)
  • (nautical) 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.

    • Synonyms

    * (move in a winding path) slither, wind

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    snaky

    English

    Alternative forms

    * snakey

    Adjective

    (er)
  • resembling or relating to snakes
  • twisty
  • :Walking through the snaky passages I was soon completely lost.
  • (obsolete) sly; cunning; deceitful
    • So to the coast of Jordan he directs / His easy steps, girded with snaky wiles. — Milton.
  • (obsolete) Covered with serpents; having serpents.
    • A snaky rod or wand. — Dryden.
    That snaky -headed, Gorgon shield. — Milton.

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