snaky

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: snak=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

snaky, a. 

•  Of or pertaining to a snake or snakes; resembling a snake; serpentine; winding.  [1913 Webster]

  "The red light playing upon its gilt and carving gave it an appearance of snaky life."  [1913 Webster]
•  Sly; cunning; insinuating; deceitful.  [1913 Webster]

  "So to the coast of Jordan he directs
  His easy steps, girded with snaky wiles."  [1913 Webster]
•  Covered with serpents; having serpents; as, a snaky rod or wand.  Dryden.  [1913 Webster]

  "That snaky-headed, Gorgon shield."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

snaky, adj.
1 of or like a snake.
2 winding; sinuous.
3 showing coldness, ingratitude, venom, or guile.
4 a infested with snakes. b (esp. of the hair of the Furies) composed of snakes.
5 Austral. sl. angry; irritable.

Derivative

snakily adv. snakiness n.

THESAURUS

snaky

Machiavellian, Machiavellic, aberrant, aberrative, acute, ambagious, amphibian, anfractuous, anguiform, anguine, arch, artful, astute, batrachian, cagey, canny, circuitous, circumlocutory, clever, colubriform, convolutional, crafty, crawling, creeping, crocodilian, cunning, cute, deceitful, deep, deep-laid, departing, designing, desultory, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory, devious, digressive, diplomatic, discursive, eellike, errant, erratic, excursive, feline, flexuose, flexuous, foxy, froggy, guileful, indirect, ingenious, insidious, inventive, involute, involuted, involutional, knowing, labyrinthine, lizardlike, lumbriciform, mazy, meandering, meandrous, ophidian, out-of-the-way, pawky, planetary, politic, rambling, ready, repent, reptant, reptile, reptilelike, reptilian, reptiliform, reptiloid, resourceful, rivose, rivulose, roundabout, roving, ruffled, saurian, scheming, serpentiform, serpentile, serpentine, serpentlike, serpentoid, sharp, shifting, shifty, shrewd, sinuate, sinuose, sinuous, slick, slippery, slithering, sly, smooth, snake-shaped, snakelike, sneaky, sophistical, stealthy, strategic, stray, subtile, subtle, supple, swerving, tactical, toadish, torsional, tortile, tortuous, trickish, tricksy, tricky, turning, twisting, twisty, undirected, vagrant, veering, vermiform, viperiform, viperish, viperlike, viperoid, viperous, vipery, vulpine, wandering, wary, whorled, wily, winding, wormlike, wreathlike, wreathy, zigzag

ROGET THESAURUS

snaky

Convolution

N convolution, winding, convolution, involution, circumvolution, wave, undulation, tortuosity, anfractuosity, sinuosity, sinuation, meandering, circuit, circumbendibus, twist, twirl, windings and turnings, ambages, torsion, inosculation, reticulation, rivulation, roughness, coil, roll, curl, buckle, spiral, helix, corkscrew, worm, volute, rundle, tendril, scollop, scallop, escalop, kink, ammonite, snakestone, serpent, eel, maze, labyrinth, knot, convoluted, winding, twisted, 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, involved, intricate, complicated, perplexed, labyrinth, labyrinthic, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, peristaltic, daedalian, kinky, knotted, wreathy, frizzly, crepe, buckled, raveled, spiral, coiled, helical, cochleate, cochleous, screw-shaped, turbinated, turbiniform, in and out, round and round, a can of worms, Gordian knot.