Snaky vs Slippery - What's the difference?
snaky | slippery |
resembling or relating to snakes
twisty
:Walking through the snaky passages I was soon completely lost.
(obsolete) sly; cunning; deceitful
(obsolete) Covered with serpents; having serpents.
Of a surface, having low friction, often due to being covered in a non-viscous liquid, and therefore hard to grip, hard to stand on without falling, etc.
(figuratively, by extension) Evasive; difficult to pin down.
(obsolete) Liable to slip; not standing firm.
* 1602 , , III. iii. 84:
unstable; changeable; inconstant
* Denham
(obsolete) wanton; unchaste; loose in morals
* 1610 , , I. ii. 273:
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between snaky and slippery
is that snaky is (obsolete) covered with serpents; having serpents while slippery is (obsolete) wanton; unchaste; loose in morals.As adjectives the difference between snaky and slippery
is that snaky is resembling or relating to snakes while slippery is of a surface, having low friction, often due to being covered in a non-viscous liquid, and therefore hard to grip, hard to stand on without falling, etc.snaky
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Alternative forms
* snakeyAdjective
(er)- So to the coast of Jordan he directs / His easy steps, girded with snaky wiles. — Milton.
- A snaky rod or wand. — Dryden.
- That snaky -headed, Gorgon shield. — Milton.
Anagrams
*slippery
English
Adjective
(er)- Oily substances render things slippery .
- a slippery person
- a slippery promise
- Which when they fall, as being slippery' standers, / The love that leaned on them, as ' slippery too, / Do one pluck down another, and together / Die in the fall.
- The slippery state of kings.
- My wife is slippery ? If thou wilt confess –