English Dictionary

snaky

/ˈsneɪki/

adj

Resembling or relating to snakes; snakelike. / Windy; winding; twisty; sinuous, wavy. / (obsolete) sly; cunning; deceitful. / (obsolete) Covered with serpents; having serpents.

The snaky path through the forest led us to a hidden waterfall.

意味（1）

Resembling or relating to snakes; snakelike.

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 other delights of her Ogress's castle.

意味（2）

Windy; winding; twisty; sinuous, wavy.

So are those crisped snaky golden locks

Which make such wanton gambols with the wind,

Upon supposed fairness, often known

To be the dowry of a second head,

So are those crisped snaky golden locks Which make such wanton gambols with the wind, Upon supposed fairness, often known To be the dowry of a second head, The skull that bred them in the sepulchre.

意味（3）

(obsolete) sly; cunning; deceitful.

So to the Coast of Jordan he directs

So to the Coast of Jordan he directs His eaſie ſteps; girded with ſnaky wiles, …

意味（4）

(obsolete) Covered with serpents; having serpents.

What was that snaky-headed Gorgon shield

That wise Minerva wore, unconquered virgin,

Wherewith she freezed her foes to congealed stone,

But rigid looks of chaste austerity,

And noble grace that dashed brute violence

What was that snaky-headed Gorgon shield That wise Minerva wore, unconquered virgin, Wherewith she freezed her foes to congealed stone, But rigid looks of chaste austerity, And noble grace that dashed brute violence With sudden adoration and blank awe?