SNAKY (snakier, snakiest)

Pronunciation (US):

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Irregular inflected forms: snakier    , snakiest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does snaky mean? 

• SNAKY (adjective)
  The adjective SNAKY has 1 sense:

1. resembling a serpent in form

  Familiarity information: SNAKY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SNAKY (adjective)

Comparative: snakier   
Superlative: snakiest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Resembling a serpent in form

Synonyms:

serpentine; snakelike; snaky

Context example:

snaky ridges in the sand

Similar:

curved; curving (having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend)

Derivation:

snake (limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous)

 Context examples 

As he sat on my sofa, with his long knees drawn up under his coffee-cup, his hat and gloves upon the ground close to him, his spoon going softly round and round, his shadowless red eyes, which looked as if they had scorched their lashes off, turned towards me without looking at me, the disagreeable dints I have formerly described in his nostrils coming and going with his breath, and a snaky undulation pervading his frame from his chin to his boots, I decided in my own mind that I disliked him intensely.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He had a way of writhing when he wanted to express enthusiasm, which was very ugly; and which diverted my attention from the compliment he had paid my relation, to the snaky twistings of his throat and body.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)