snakeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• (internet スラング, childish, jocular) snek

語源

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

発音

• enPR: snāk, IPA^(key): /ˈsneɪk/
• 韻: -eɪk

名詞

snake (複数形 snakes)

1. A legless reptile of the suborder Serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue.

   Synonyms: joe blake, serpent

   • 1892, Oscar Wilde, A House of Pomegranates‎^[1]:

     The man writhed like a trampled snake, and a red foam bubbled from his lips.

2. A treacherous person; a rat.
   • 1838, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby‎^[2]:

     Mrs. Kenwigs was horror-stricken to think that she should ever have nourished in her bosom such a snake, adder, viper, serpent, and base crocodile, as Henrietta Petowker.

3. (Ireland, UK) Somebody who acts deceitfully for social gain.
4. A tool for unclogging plumbing.

   Synonyms: auger, plumber's snake

5. A tool to aid cable pulling.

   Synonym: wirepuller

6. (Australia) A flavoured jube (confectionary) in the shape of a snake.
7. (slang) Trouser snake; the penis.

   Synonym: trouser snake

8. (mathematics) A series of Bézier curves.
9. (cartomancy) The seventh Lenormand card.
10. (MLE, MTE) An informer; a rat.

    Gem’s a snake for Kamale, man.

11. (finance, historical) Short for snake in the tunnel.
    • 2001, W. Bonefeld, The Politics of Europe: Monetary Union and Class, page 69:

      The snake failed to provide an anchor for currency stability and, through it, disinflation.

派生語

派生した語

• → Maori: neke
• → Sranan Tongo: sneki

動詞

snake (三人称単数 現在形 snakes, 現在分詞 snaking, 過去形および過去分詞形 snaked)

1. (intransitive) To follow or move in a winding route.

   Synonyms: slither, wind

   The path snaked through the forest.

   The river snakes through the valley.

   • 1996 September 24, Mark Addinall, “Football fever...”, in aus.personals‎^[3] (Usenet):

     Any Brisbane female interested in snaking down a few beers whilst watching the footy on a big screen?

   • 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Bournemouth (circa 1880)”, in RAIL, number 947, pages 59-60:

     Opened in June of that year [1880], the station was the southern terminus of the much-lamented Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway (the S&D または 'Slow かつ Dirty'), which snaked its way down from Bath.

2. (transitive, Australia, slang) To steal slyly.

   He snaked my DVD!

   • 2001 April 5, Hyena, “Home made supercharger ?”, in aus.cars‎^[4] (Usenet):

     Although it wouldn't be the first time some one patented an idea that I'd had a year earlier. […] Someone already has :) […] F*CK ME !! Snaked again !

3. (transitive) To clean using a plumbing snake.
4. (US, informal) To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with out.
   • November 27 1835, N.B. St. John, letter to George Thompson

     his wife and children shall not be forced to flee from the hearth of a friend, lest they should be snaked out by men in civic authority

5. (nautical) 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.
6. (MLE) To inform; to rat.

   He says he didn't snake and I believe him.

参考

• anguine

Further reading

• snake on Wikipedia.

アナグラム

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