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noun
- A legless reptile of the sub-order Serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue.
- A treacherous person.
- A tool for unclogging plumbing.
- A tool to aid cable pulling.
Translations: - Dutch: serpent(nl, slang, f}}, t+, nl)n
- French: serpent(fr)m
- German: m (italbrac(de, Schlange, f), {{t+, de, Wurm)poetic
- Italian: biscia(it, serpente, m, f(it, serpe), t-, it)f
- Spanish: serpiente , culebra , sierpe (italbrac, archaic), víbora (italbrac, colloquial, Mexico)
verb (snak, ing)
- (intransitive): To move in a winding path.
- The river snakes through the valley.
- (context, transitive, AU, slang) To steal slyly.
- He snaked my DVD!
- (transitive) To clean using a plumbing snake.
Translations: - French: serpenter
- German: winden, sich winden, schlí¤ngeln
- Italian: serpeggiare
- Portuguese: serpentear(pt)
- Spanish: culebrear, serpentear, hacer culebra
Etymology: From Middle English < Old English snaca < Proto-Germanic - snakon < Proto-Indo-European base
- snag-,
- sneg- (to crawl, a creeping thing).
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