snaky
/ˈsneɪki
/(also snakey)
adjective (snakier, snakiest)
1Like a snake in appearance; long and sinuous: a long snaky whip...
- Flora had become a beautiful green snaky dragon.
- She gestured to the long, snaky line ahead of her.
- Honsha carries are a sword with a snaky curved blade and a short dagger - like weapon with a slightly longer hilt and a blade curved backwards.
1.1Of the supposed nature of a snake in showing coldness, venom, or cunning: a snaky friend...
- Calling someone snakey would be fairly negative, and Giselle wasn't really bad.
- Every now and again, a snaky comment would erupt from his lips but there was always a quick apology while he muttered something that she couldn't ever hear.
2Australian /NZ informal Angry; irritable: what are you snaky about?...
- So this morning in the Sunday papers we have Richard Carleton over on Nine's 60 Minutes getting all snaky about Paul Barry joining the tick tick tickers next year.
- Angelina Jolie has a wild time as Alexander's snakey mum, Olympias, though you do wonder why she bothers.
- One minute I am intolerant and snakey, the next I am dancing around the lounge room with Amelia to her CD of Latin music (cha cha cha!) or sewing a tiny dog in a creative frenzy.
Derivatives
snakily
- Mears snakily threads melody, then tears into the reed, taking the clarinet into the other world.
- He plays a snakily elegant playboy named Jamison, who has raised the art of seduction to a lucrative business.
- There's a good trio of sisters, with Suzanne Burden outstanding as a snakily vain Goneril.
snakiness
- As snakes can also be poorly cooked, the snakiness does not detract from the duck-magic.
- This results from excessive snakiness of the chain due to sprocket and roller misalignment or uneven roller wear.
- Jessica is only able to control her snakiness with the connivance of the white man who entrapped her in his plot