snakingly
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]snakingly (not comparable)
- (rare) In a snaking manner; serpentinely.
- 1985, Sûrya India, page 55:
- Amazonian in build, with a pretty face, Bindu often called herself an actress and snakingly pointed to a string of films where she was not clawed, pawed or jawed by her boss.
- 2012, Fran Brearton, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry[2], page 578:
- The snakingly complex, ductile, and extended syntax of Yeats's 'While I, from that reed-throated whisperer' is in the mix here, also.