snake
Any of the suborder Serpentes of legless reptiles with long, thin bodies and fork-shaped tongues.
Noun 4 meanings
Any of the suborder Serpentes of legless reptiles with long, thin bodies and fork-shaped tongues.
A person who acts deceitfully for personal or social gain; a treacherous person.
“Near-synonyms: rat; see also Thesaurus:betrayer”
A tool for unclogging plumbing.
A tool to aid cable pulling.
Verb 4 meanings
To follow or move in a winding route.
“The path snaked through the forest.”
To clean using a plumbing snake.
To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with out.
To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm.
Etymology
From Middle English snake, from Old English snaca (“snake, serpent, reptile”), from Proto-West Germanic *snakō (“slider, snake”), from *snakan (“to creep, slide”), related to Old High German snahhan (“to sneak, slide”). Compare also Proto-Germanic *snēkô (“creeper, crawler”).
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SNAKE at a glance
SNAKE has 5 letters and scores 9 points in Scrabble (S 1 + N 1 + A 1 + K 5 + E 1) and 10 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #4,806 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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