Snaky

Definition: Snaky

Snaky

Adjective

1. Resembling a serpent in form; "a serpentine wall"; "snaky ridges in the sand".

Date "snaky" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Synonyms: Snaky

Synonyms: serpentine (adj), snakelike (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Convolution	Adjective: convoluted; winding, twisted; Verb: tortile, tortive; wavy; undated, undulatory; circling, snaky, snake-like, serpentine; serpent, anguill, vermiform; vermicular; mazy, tortuous, sinuous, flexuous, anfractuous, reclivate, rivulose, scolecoid; sigmoid, sigmoidal; spiriferous, spiroid;
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Snaky

English words defined with "snaky": Snakish. (references)

Specialty definitions using "snaky": Herculean Knot. (references)

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	A snaky looking camp in the highlands of Central Luzon Triangulation party of Elliott B. Roberts Pushing the triangulation through the mountains from Manila to Aparri. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

"Snaky" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Snaky" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	9	117,287

Expression using "snaky": serpentine snaky. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "snaky"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		plotë gjarpërinj, gjarpërues (devious, serpentine, sinuous, tortuous, twisting, wandering, winding), gjarpëror (serpentine). (various references)

Arabic		‏متعرج (meandrous, serpentine, sinuous, tortuous, winding, zigzag), ‏غادر (blow, depart, disloyal, false, feline, get carried away, go, hop, insidious, jump, leave, pop off, quit, ratty, retire, scram, skip, sneak, snide, start, traitorous, treacherous). (various references)

Bulgarian		коварен (catty, crafty, guileful, insidious, perfidious, subtle, trappy, underhand), гъвкав (elastic, facile, flexible, light-heeled, lightsome, limber, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, plastic, pliable, pliant, resilient, sinuous, soft, supple, svelte, tractable, versatile, willowy), зъл (bad, bad tempered, baleful, blackhearted, evil, ill, ill disposed, ill tempered, ill-conditioned, malign, malignant, mean, scratchy, sinister, stuffy, sulphurous, swart, tricky, venomous, vicious, waspish, wicked), змийски (ophidian, serpentine), змиевиден (anguine, ophidian, serpentine, sinuous), лукав (astute, crafty, designing, feline, furtive, guileful, parlous, pawky, serpentine, sly, subtle, tricky, underhand, wicked, wily), пълен със змии, подъл (base, blackguardly, caitiff, creeping, dastardly, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, dirt, dirty, dishonorable, dishonourable, jesuitic, jesuitical, low, low down, low-minded, mean, mean-spirited, miscreant, recreant, reptile, scurvy, shabby, sneaking, sneaky, snide, vile, villainous). (various references)

Czech		klikatý (devious, tortuous, winding, zigzag), hadovitý, úskoèný (crafty, deceitful, shifty, shuffling, tricky, underhand, wily). (various references)

Finnish		käärmemäinen (snake-like). (various references)

French		sinueux, perfide, insidieux (sneaky, snide). (various references)

German		hinterhältig (false, guileful, mean, perfidious, sneaky, treacherous, underhand). (various references)

Greek		φιδίσιοσ (serpentine), οφιοειδήσ (serpentine, snakeline), δόλιοσ (deceitful, dishonest, fraudulent, guileful, lurking, sly, trappy, treacherous, two faced, underhand, underhanded, wily). (various references)

Hebrew		� חשי (serpentine, sinuous). (various references)

Hungarian		kígyószerû (ophidian). (various references)

Italian		infestato dai serpenti. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		蛇の様 (serpentine, snakelike). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		へびのよう (serpentine, snakelike). (various references)

Pig Latin		akysnay

Portuguese		sinuoso (anfractuous, bent, circuitous, curved, serpentine, sinuous, tortuous, winding), serpentiforme (serpentine), venenoso (baneful, pestilent, poisonous, venomous, viperous), traiçoeiro (base-minded, cattish, deceitful, double-hearted, insidious, slippery, slippy, traitorous, treacherous, treasonable, treasonous, vulpine), tortuoso (anfractuous, bent, crooked, curved, devious, serpentine, sinuous, tortuous, torturous, winding), falso (apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, bogus, brummagem, buckram, cammed, canting, counterfeit, deceitful, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, dummy, erroneous, faked, false, flash, hollow-hearted, imitation, insincere, lying, mendacious, mock, off-key, ostensible, painted, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, pretended, professed, self-styled, shifty, shoddy, simulated, sklent, slippery, slippy, snide, so-called, spurious, supposititious, traitorous, treacherous, truthless, two-faced, two-tongued, unfair, untrue, untrustworthy, wrong), coleante. (various references)

Romanian		plin de şerpi, perfid (false, false-hearted, guileful, perfidious, serpentine, shifty, treacherous), de şarpe (serpentine), cotit (meandering, sinuous, tortuous, winding, zigzaggy), care şerpuieşte, şerpuit (meandering, tortuous, winding), şerpesc. (various references)

Russian		змеиный (serpentine). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zmijolik (anguine, ophidian, snakelike), pun zmija. (various references)

Spanish		serpentino (anguine, convoluted, serpentine), tortuoso (anfractuous, circuitous, devious, discombobulated, tortuous, winding). (various references)

Swedish		ormliknande (reptile, serpentine), full av ormar. (various references)

Thai		เหมือนงู. (various references)

Turkish		sinsi (cattish, catty, furtive, gloating, hole-and-corner, insidious, slinky, sly, sneaking, sneaky, underarm, underhand), yılanlarla dolu, yılanlı, yılan gibi (ophidian, serpentine, viperish, viperous, viperously), hain (betrayer, cattish, catty, deceitful, dingo, disloyal, faithless, false, false-hearted, foul, insidious, Judas, malicious, nefarious, perfidious, rat, Ratter, renegade, scoundrel, scoundrelly, serpent, traitor, traitorous, treacherous, ungrateful, villain, viperish, viperous, wicked). (various references)

Ukrainian		що кишить гадюками, гадючий, звивистий (anfractuose, anfractuous, convoluted, cranky, meandering, quirky, sinuate, twisted, wandering, winding). (various references)

Vietnamese		thâm hiểm (feline), quỷ quyệt (insidious, machiavellian, shifty, wily), nhiều rắn hình rắn độc ác, nham hiểm; bất nhân, nanh ác (cattish, catty). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Snaky" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sakie, saky, Sakya, Sancie, sanjak, sankeys, Sanski, Senaki, Senkaki, senkaku, Sjak, snaac, snaca, snak, snaks, snaok, snapy, snarky, snaty, snazy, snek, snok, zanaki, zanky. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: yanks.
	Words within the letters "a-k-n-s-y"
	-1 letter: kays, nays, sank, yaks, yank.
	-2 letters: any, ask, ays, kas, kay, nay, say, ska, sky, syn, yak.
	-3 letters: an, as, ay, ka, na, ya.
	Words containing the letters "a-k-n-s-y"
	+1 letter: skyman, snakey, snarky, sneaky, swanky.
	+2 letters: alkynes, kyanise, ryokans, snakily.
	+3 letters: ankylose, hackneys, kyanised, kyanises, kyanites, kyanizes, ladykins, sneakily, swankily, synkarya, vandykes.
	+4 letters: ankylosed, ankyloses, ankylosis, claybanks, gunnysack, gymkhanas, junkyards, karyotins, kayakings, knavishly, kyanising, synkaryon, yokozunas.
	+5 letters: ankylosaur, ankylosing, dyskinesia, fancyworks, gunnysacks, kanamycins, mistakenly, prankishly, skyjacking, skylarking, sneakingly, synkaryons, unshakably.
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