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单词 snakish
释义 snakish, a.|ˈsneɪkɪʃ|
[f. snake n.]
Of or pertaining to a snake; snake-like, snaky.
1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 512/1 These Heretiques..whose snakish and serpentine generacions haue..hadde theyr heades troden downe by Godde.1565Golding Ovid's Met. iv. (1593) 97 Before this snakish shape do whole my body over-run.Ibid. 98 On their snakish heads grew crests.1594Carew Tasso (1881) 26 So gentle seemd a while, the Snakish brood.1632Lithgow Trav. B j b, The hissing of snakish Papists.1825Examiner 560/1 The sneaking, snakish, and vile token of displeasure, hissing.1864Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xv. xi. IV. 168 If you will withdraw your snakish notions, will guarantee Silesia,..he will march home.
Hence ˈsnakishness.
1901S. Dark Stage Silhouettes 18 Mrs. Campbell's subtlety and snakishness as Lady Macbeth.
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