Snake vs Snitch - What's the difference?
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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.
To follow or move in a winding route.
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(transitive, Australia, slang) To steal slyly.
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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 .
(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.
To steal, quickly and quietly.
To inform on.
(slang) To contact or cooperate with the police for any reason.
A thief.
An informer, usually one who betrays his group.
(rft-sense) (British) A nose.
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In transitive terms the difference between snake and snitch
is that snake is to clean using a plumbing snake while snitch is to inform on.As nouns the difference between snake and snitch
is that snake is a legless reptile of the sub-order Serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue while snitch is a thief.As verbs the difference between snake and snitch
is that snake is to follow or move in a winding route while snitch is to steal, quickly and quietly.As a proper noun Snake
is an early computer game, later popular on mobile phones, in which the player attempts to manoeuvre a perpetually growing snake so as to collect food items and avoid colliding with walls or the snake's tail.snake
English
(wikipedia snake)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (reptile) joe blake, serpent * (plumbing tool) auger, plumber's snake * (tool for cable pulling) wirepullerDerived terms
* snakebite * snake in the grass * snake oilVerb
(snak)- The path snaked through the forest.
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- The river snakes through the valley.
- He snaked my DVD!
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- (Bartlett)
Synonyms
* (move in a winding path) slither, windSee also
*Anagrams
* *snitch
English
Verb
(es)Noun
(es)- 'Yah, I wouldn't git a second-'and dress at a pawnbroker's!'
- 'Garn!' said Liza indignantly. 'I'll swipe yer over the snitch if yer talk ter me. [...] "
citation, isbn=9780142180044 , page=96 , passage=He added in conclusion that he strongly disliked the police coming and sticking its nose into his affairs and, since the horror which such actions inspired in him was not far from making him wish to vomit, he extracted from his pocket a silken square of the colour of the lilac flower (the one that isn’t white) but impregnated with Barbouze, the Fior perfume, and with it dabbed his snitch .}}
citation, isbn=9780226757452 , page=158 , passage= On one level clearly emblematic of her class status, “she’d have really looked down her snitch at me”), Virginia Woolf's nose, both Bennett and his audience would know, signifies as well the far more frightening power, the phallic power, attributed to women, strong women in particular.}}
citation, isbn=9780002241014 , page=74 , passage=‘Yes, I’m a witch! I wiggle my snitch![...]’}}
citation, passage=Bluenoze: Blow your nose to clear your snitch of whatever it is you've been snorting and read the postings again.}}
citation, passage=Question: do benign bacteria live in one's snitch and keep the other, nastier ones at bay ?}}
citation, passage=Have a perpetual dew drop hanging from your snitch }}