snaky
/ˈsneɪki/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.72 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or relating to snakes; snakelike.
Example Sentences
- "[S]ome of Serpent kinde Wondrous in length and corpulence involv'd Thir Snakie foulds, and added wings."
- "There is a snaky gleam in her hard grey eye, as of anticipated rounds of buttered toast, relays of hot chops, worryings and quellings of young children, sharp snappings at poor Berry, and all the other delights of her Ogress's castle."
- "To look at the tawny brawn of his lithe snaky limbs, you would almost have credited the superstitions of some of the earlier Puritans, and half believed this wild Indian to be a son of the Prince of the Powers of the Air."
- "Walking through the snaky passages I was soon completely lost."
- "So are thoſe criſped ſnaky golden locks Which maketh ſuch wanton gambals with the wind, Vpon ſuppoſed faireneſſe, often knowne To be the dowry of a ſecond head, The skull that bred them in the Sepulcher."
- "The nuns' veils billowed and flapped behind the snaky line of girls as if the sisters were shooing the serpent from the Garden of Eden."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *sneganą Proto-Germanic *snakaną Proto-West Germanic *snakan Proto-Indo-European *-ō Proto-Germanic *-ô Proto-West Germanic *-ō Proto-West Germanic *snakō Old English snaca Middle English snake English snake English -y English snaky From snake + -y.