snake

Meanings

Plural: snakes

Noun

limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous
a deceitful or treacherous person
a tributary of the Columbia River that rises in Wyoming and flows westward; discovered in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark Expedition
a long faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near the equator stretching between Virgo and Cancer
something long, thin, and flexible that resembles a snake
Any of the suborder Serpentes of legless reptile with long, thin bodies and fork-shaped tongues.
A person who acts deceitfully for personal or social gain; a treacherous person.
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.
Ellipsis of snake in the tunnel.
Ellipsis of black snake (“firework that creates a trail of ash”).

Verb

move smoothly and sinuously, like a snake
form a snake-like pattern
- "The river snakes through the valley"
move along a winding path
- "The army snaked through the jungle"
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; often with out.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English snake, from Old English snaca (“snake, serpent, reptile”), from Proto-West Germanic *snakō (“snake”), derived via Proto-Germanic *snakô from Proto-Germanic *snakaną (“to crawl”).
See also German Low German Snake, Snaak (“snake”), dialectal German Schnake (“adder”), Swedish snok (“grass snake”), Danish snog (“grass snake”), Icelandic snákur (“snake”); also Old High German snahhan.

Synonyms

abaddon, accuser, auger, beefer, bewrayer, bigmouth, blabber, blabtale, blabtongue, canary, CI, danger noodle, finger, fink, fizgig, gossip, grass, Hydra, informant, informer, joe blake, jurat, leak, mole, narc, nark, nonce, ophidian, outer, peacher, plumber's snake, quisling, rat, ratfink, rooster, serpent, slither, snake, snake in the grass, Snake River, sneak, snitch, snout, squealer, state's evidence, stooge, stool pigeon, stoolie, supergrass, sycophant, tattler, tattletale, telltale, telltale tit, tout, trouser snake, whistleblower, wind, wirepuller

Scrabble Score: 9

snake is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
snake is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
snake is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 10

snake is a valid Words With Friends word