SNAKE
What does "SNAKE" mean?
A long, limbless reptile with a scaly body that moves by slithering.
Meanings
- A legless reptile with an elongated body, some species venomous. A snake slid through the dry grass.
- A treacherous or deceitful person. He turned out to be a snake who sold out his own team. figurative
- To move or extend in long winding curves. The road snakes through the mountains.
- A long flexible tool, especially a plumber's auger for clearing drains. He ran a snake down the clogged pipe. technical
Did you know?
- Snakes 'smell' with their forked tongues by collecting scent particles and pressing them onto the vomeronasal (Jacobson's) organ, with the fork letting them sense direction in stereo.
Word origin
From Old English 'snaca', a snake, from a Proto-Germanic root meaning to crawl or creep; related to Old Norse 'snakr' and to the verb 'sneak'.
Remember it
SNAKE hides 'nake' - it is the naked creature with no legs to dress.
A little poem
A line in the dust-
the snake writes its one long word
and erases it.
haiku
Wordplay
- How do snakes measure things? In inches - they don't have feet.
What it teaches
Judge a creature by its bite, not its lack of legs; the harmless slither gets the worst reputation.
Quick facts
What does SNAKE mean?
A long, limbless reptile with a scaly body that moves by slithering.
Is SNAKE a valid word?
Yes — SNAKE is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is SNAKE?
SNAKE has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does SNAKE come from?
From Old English 'snaca', a snake, from a Proto-Germanic root meaning to crawl or creep; related to Old Norse 'snakr' and to the verb 'sneak'.
What can SNAKE teach us?
Judge a creature by its bite, not its lack of legs; the harmless slither gets the worst reputation.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.