snakinglyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

副詞

snakingly ‎(not comparable)

1. (まれに) In a snaking manner; serpentinely.
   • 1905, The Practitioner^[1], volume 75, page 107:

     The anonymous writer asserts that the definition was inserted into the preamble only of the Act of 1643, and "subtilly and snakingly" made statutory in 1655 "all to gratify the conjobling^[sic] of a Linsy Winsy Apothecary-Surgeons."

   • 1985, Sûrya India, page 55:

     Amazonian in build, with a pretty face, Bindu often called herself an actress and snakingly pointed to a string of films where she was not clawed, pawed or jawed by her boss.

   • 2012, Fran Brearton, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry^[2], page 578:

     The snakingly complex, ductile, and extended syntax of Yeats's 'While I, from that reed-throated whisperer' is in the mix here, also.