/ˈsneɪki/
- Resembling or relating to snakes; snakelike.
“[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 othe”
“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 t”
- Windy; winding; twisty; sinuous, wavy.
“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 Sep”
“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.”
- obsoleteSly; cunning; deceitful.
“So to the Coaſt of Jordan he directs
His eaſie ſteps; girded with ſnaky wiles, […]”
- obsoleteCovered with serpents; having serpents.
“What was that ſnakie headed Gorgon ſheild
That wiſe Minerva wore, unconquer’d virgin
Wherewith ſhe freez’d her foes to congeal’d ſtone?
But rigid looks of Chaſt auſteritie
And noble grace that daſ” — Comus
“His Hat, adorn’d with Wings, diſclos’d the God,
And in his Hand he bore the Sleep-compelling Rod:
Such as he ſeem’d, when at his Sire’s Command
On Argus Head he laid the Snaky Wand; […]”
Formssnakier(comparative) · snakiest(superlative) · snakey(alternative)