Definitions for snaky

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snaky snak·y

Spelling: [sney-kee]

IPA: /ˈsneɪ ki/

Snaky is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 46 anagrams from letters in snaky (aknsy).

Definitions for snaky

adjective

1. of or relating to snakes.
2. abounding in snakes, as a place.
3. snakelike; twisting, winding, or sinuous.
4. venomous; treacherous or insidious:
5. consisting of, entwined with, or bearing a representation of snakes or serpents, as a ring.
6. Australian Informal. irritable, angry, or spiteful.

Origin of snaky

First recorded in 1560-70; snake + -y¹

Examples for snaky

"He's the long, snaky knife that hangs in the parlor," said Hortense.

Save for a stern and ominous look in his cold, snaky eye, he might not have heard.

"They're so snaky, dark, and deceitful-looking," interrupted Mrs. Markham.

I shall be proud to introduce you to our slim and snaky sort at Coolspring.

She gave me to understand, in that snaky, frozen way of hers, that I was a fool for thinking so.

And then there were the long ‘snaky’ ringlets, which the man at the tavern had described to me.

It's his snaky movements and his ferret eyes that is getting on me nerves.

She juggled the wheel and made a snaky path off to one side of the road.

Beautiful the strange, snaky lifting of the muzzles, the swaying of the sharp horns.

"snaky" was Belle's thought of the woman; "sinuous" was Garlock's of the man.