snake

Meanings

Noun

• A legless reptile of the sub-order Serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue.
• A treacherous person; a rat.
• Somebody who acts deceitfully for social gain.
• A tool for unclogging plumbing.
• A tool to aid cable pulling.
• A flavoured jube (confectionary) in the shape of a snake.
• Trouser snake; the penis.
• A series of Bézier curves.
• The seventh Lenormand card.
• An informer; a rat.

Verb

• To follow or move in a winding route.
• To steal slyly.
• 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.
• To inform; to rat.

Origin

• From Middle English snake, from Old English snaca ("snake, serpent, reptile"), from Proto-Germanic *snakô (compare German Low German Snake, Snaak, dialectal German Schnake ("adder"), Swedish snok ("grass snake"), Icelandic snákur), derived from *snakaną (compare Old High German snahhan), from Proto-Indo-European *sneg- ("to crawl; a creeping thing"). Cognate with Sanskrit नाग ("snake")). nāga.