serpently

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

serpent +‎ -ly

Adjective[edit]

serpently (comparative more serpently, superlative most serpently)

  1. (rare) snakelike
    • 2005, Trudy Dittmar, Fauna and Flora, Earth and Sky: Brushes with Nature's Wisdom, page 103:
      […] the having of “boyfriends” was a kind of protective self-aggrandizement, a little like the trick of the puff adder, bloating itself almost double to blind you to the serpently disgrace of its vulnerable venomlessness.
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