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SLITHERY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does slithery mean?
• SLITHERY (adjective)
The adjective SLITHERY has 1 sense:
1. having a slippery surface or quality
Familiarity information: SLITHERY used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a slippery surface or quality
Context example:
slithery eels
Similar:
slippery; slippy (causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide)
Context examples
Do you feel a creeping, shrinking sensation, Watson, when you stand before the serpents in the Zoo, and see the slithery, gliding, venomous creatures, with their deadly eyes and wicked, flattened faces?
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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