snake

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A snake (anaconda).

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Middle English snāke, from Old English snaca, from Proto-Germanic *snakōn (compare German dialect Schnake 'adder', Swedish snok 'grass snake'), from *snakanan 'to crawl' (compare Old High German snahhan), from Proto-Indo-European *snag-, *sneg- 'to crawl; a creeping thing' (compare Irish snaighim 'I crawl', Lithuanian snake 'snail' , Sanskrit nagás 'snake').

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snake (plural snakes)

  1. A legless reptile of the sub-order Serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue.
  2. A treacherous person.
    • 1838, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby[2]:
      Mrs. Kenwigs was horror-stricken to think that she should ever have nourished in her bosom such a snake, adder, viper, serpent, and base crocodile, as Henrietta Petowker.
  3. A tool for unclogging plumbing.
  4. A tool to aid cable pulling.
  5. (slang) A trouser snake; the penis.

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snake (third-person singular simple present snakes, present participle snaking, simple past and past participle snaked)

  1. (intransitive): To move in a winding path.
    The river snakes through the valley.
  2. (transitive, Australian, slang) To steal slyly.
    He snaked my DVD!
  3. (transitive) To clean using a plumbing snake.

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