house snaken.

Brit.

/ˈhaʊs ˌsneɪk/, U.S.

/ˈhaʊs ˌsneɪk/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: house n.¹, snake n.

Etymology: < house n.¹ + snake n.In quot. 1608 translating German Hausschlange (apparently early 17th cent. or earlier); compare also German (now regional) Hausunk , masculine, and (more usually) Hausunke , feminine, in same sense, which show a second element meaning ‘snake, adder’ of uncertain and disputed origin. The German forms Hussunck and Husschlang in quot. 1608 reflect regional variants from a dialect in which Middle High German ū was not diphthongized to au.

a. Any of various snakes which have a tendency to enter buildings, or which are kept as pets.Now rare except in specific uses (see senses 1b and 1c).

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the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > [noun] > unspecified and miscellaneous types of

worm-kinc893

slow-wormOE

hagworm?c1475

salpege1569

scytale1572

house snake1608

porphyre1608

ellops1667

sea-serpent1672

tree-serpent1731

boyuna1763

whip-snake1774

garter-snake1775

switch-snake1791

argus-snake1802

rat snake1818

skaapsteker1818

sea-snake1827

short-tail1879

roof-snake1884

brown snake1896

herald-snake1910

night snake1918

parrot snake1931

1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 203 There be also Domesticall innocent Serpents, Myagrus, Orophia, and Spathiurus, which whether they be one kind or many, I will not stand vppon, for they are all tearmed by the Germans, Hussunck, and Husschlang, that is a House-Snake. They liue by hunting of Mice and Weasels, and vpon their heads they haue two little eares, like to the eares of a Mouse, and because they be as blacke as coales, The Italians call them Serpe-Nero, and Carbon, and garobonazzo, and the French-men Anguille-de Hay, that is, a Snake of hedges.

1666 N. Foxcroft Let. 11 Sept. in R. Boyle Corr. (2001) III. 232 There is a stone..call'd a Snake-stone: which doth certainly cure the stinging of Scorpions & other venomous Creatures, by a bare outward Application to the place hurt..There are both Artificiall & naturall ones. the first made in China & Macassar. the others had from house snakes.

1764 J. Petiver Jacobi Petiveri Opera I. 6/2 The striped snake of Borneo, this seems to be a familiar House Snake, for Mr. Silvanus Landon caught him drinking in a punch bowl, after a sudden return with some friends.

1794 P. Russell A. Russell's Nat. Hist. Aleppo (ed. 2) II. iv. iv. 225 Vipers..are brought dried, for medicinal purposes, from Egypt. Broth made of the common house Snake is sometime eaten by the Christians, but it is never prescribed as a medicine.

1843 J. E. Cooley Amer. in Egypt iv. 55 The domestic, or house-snake, is said to have been held in great estimation by the ancient Egyptians.

1887 A. J. Butler Court Life Egypt vi. 165 He saw at once that it was a mountain-snake, not a house-snake, and that it was fangless.

1929 W. Miller Daedalus & Thespis I. 30 ὀροϕίας became the natural epithet to distinguish between a common or domestic mouse and a field mouse, between a house-snake and a field-snake.

b. spec. Any of several North American colubrid snakes of the genera Elaphe and Lampropeltis, esp. the milk snake, L. triangulum.

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the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Colubridae > member of genus Elaphe (rat-snake)

chicken snake1698

Aesculapian1763

house snake1807

rat snake1818

pilot snake1854

fox-snake1857

the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Colubridae > member of genus Lampropeltis (king-snake)

kingsnake1709

house snake1807

1807 in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1815) 2nd Ser. III. 54 The milk or house snake, speckled like a rattlesnake.

1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xxxix. 334 We went for the snakes, and grabbed a couple of dozen garters and house-snakes.

1915 Proc. National Acad. Sci. Philadelphia 67 161 Elaphe guttatus... Corn Snake; Rat Snake... House King Snake; House Snake; [etc.]

1958 R. Conant Field Guide Reptiles & Amphibians U.S. 171 Sometimes called ‘house snake’, but ‘barn snake’ would be more descriptive, for it would reflect the frequency with which farm buildings are entered in search of rodents.

1998 Daily News Los Angeles (Nexis) 20 Jan. They thought it was a house snake or a garden snake.

c. spec. Any of several small, non-venomous African colubrid snakes of the genus Lamprophis (formerly Boaedon). Also with distinguishing word.

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the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Colubridae > miscellaneous types of

grey snake1703

garter-snake1775

boomslang1793

scarlet snake1842

blunt head1869

tiger-snake1869

house snake1870

ground-snake1885

lycodont1887

mole snake1893

sling-snake1895

file snake1912

mussurana1914

1870 Jrnl. Ethnol. Soc. London 1869–70 2 374 Zulus..believe that certain harmless common house-snakes are animated by the souls of deceased kindred.

1932 Discovery 13 364/2 The brown house snake, Boodon [sic] lineatus, is far more efficient than a cat in keeping down rats and mice, as it penetrates into their holes and destroys the young.

1962 V. F. M. FitzSimons Snakes S. Afr. 123/1 In search of its prey it is often attracted to, and found in and about, human settlements, and has thus got the name of House Snake.

2006 W. Schmidt Reptiles & Amphibians S. Afr. 20 The beautiful Aurora House Snake, Lamprophis aurora, is a distinctive species that has a pale white belly, yellow flanks and olive green body.

2. A snake believed to protect or watch over a household, esp. one kept as a household god. Cf. penates n.

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the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [noun] > household god(s) > snake kept as

house snake1799

household snake1871

the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > [noun] > member of (snake) > kept as household god

house snake1799

household snake1871

1742 C. Owen Ess. Nat. Hist. Serpents 218 Ælian speaks of domestick Serpents, that were in the Houses of the Egyptians, and look'd upon as household Gods.]

1799 W. Tooke View Russ. Empire I. ii. ii. 510 Mahte was in general the childrens' goddess.., for whom they kept the domestic snakes..; and even to this day,..especially among the vulgar, the superstition is still retained of dreading to drive the house-snakes out of doors.

1817 Hume Jrnl. in R. Walpole Mem. relating to European & Asiatic Turkey & Other Countries of East (ed. 2) 397 They frequently place milk..for their subsistence, when..any snakes frequent the ruins of their dwellings. These house snakes grow to a large size, and are said to be quite harmless, and even tame.

1876 Contemp. Rev. 27 101 When the war of independence first broke out, many families were driven into exile by the..Turks; one of these..returned to their deserted home, and wept with delight at finding the house-snake still in possession.

1894 W. Crooke Pop. Relig. & Folk-lore N. India vii. 276 Should rain drive the house snake out of his hole, he is worshipped.

1935 A. J. Evans Palace of Minos IV. i. 153/2 When the house snakes died the master and mistress of the house died too.

1989 M. Gimbutas Lang. of Goddess i. xiv. 135 Romans had male house-snakes as guardians of penus (food, provision), called penates , known from countless Greco-Roman wall paintings.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	house snake
释义	house snaken. Brit. /ˈhaʊs ˌsneɪk/, U.S. /ˈhaʊs ˌsneɪk/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: house n.¹, snake n. Etymology: < house n.¹ + snake n.In quot. 1608 translating German Hausschlange (apparently early 17th cent. or earlier); compare also German (now regional) Hausunk , masculine, and (more usually) Hausunke , feminine, in same sense, which show a second element meaning ‘snake, adder’ of uncertain and disputed origin. The German forms Hussunck and Husschlang in quot. 1608 reflect regional variants from a dialect in which Middle High German ū was not diphthongized to au. 1. a. Any of various snakes which have a tendency to enter buildings, or which are kept as pets.Now rare except in specific uses (see senses 1b and 1c). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > [noun] > unspecified and miscellaneous types of worm-kinc893 slow-wormOE hagworm?c1475 salpege1569 scytale1572 house snake1608 porphyre1608 ellops1667 sea-serpent1672 tree-serpent1731 boyuna1763 whip-snake1774 garter-snake1775 switch-snake1791 argus-snake1802 rat snake1818 skaapsteker1818 sea-snake1827 short-tail1879 roof-snake1884 brown snake1896 herald-snake1910 night snake1918 parrot snake1931 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 203 There be also Domesticall innocent Serpents, Myagrus, Orophia, and Spathiurus, which whether they be one kind or many, I will not stand vppon, for they are all tearmed by the Germans, Hussunck, and Husschlang, that is a House-Snake. They liue by hunting of Mice and Weasels, and vpon their heads they haue two little eares, like to the eares of a Mouse, and because they be as blacke as coales, The Italians call them Serpe-Nero, and Carbon, and garobonazzo, and the French-men Anguille-de Hay, that is, a Snake of hedges. 1666 N. Foxcroft Let. 11 Sept. in R. Boyle Corr. (2001) III. 232 There is a stone..call'd a Snake-stone: which doth certainly cure the stinging of Scorpions & other venomous Creatures, by a bare outward Application to the place hurt..There are both Artificiall & naturall ones. the first made in China & Macassar. the others had from house snakes. 1764 J. Petiver Jacobi Petiveri Opera I. 6/2 The striped snake of Borneo, this seems to be a familiar House Snake, for Mr. Silvanus Landon caught him drinking in a punch bowl, after a sudden return with some friends. 1794 P. Russell A. Russell's Nat. Hist. Aleppo (ed. 2) II. iv. iv. 225 Vipers..are brought dried, for medicinal purposes, from Egypt. Broth made of the common house Snake is sometime eaten by the Christians, but it is never prescribed as a medicine. 1843 J. E. Cooley Amer. in Egypt iv. 55 The domestic, or house-snake, is said to have been held in great estimation by the ancient Egyptians. 1887 A. J. Butler Court Life Egypt vi. 165 He saw at once that it was a mountain-snake, not a house-snake, and that it was fangless. 1929 W. Miller Daedalus & Thespis I. 30 ὀροϕίας became the natural epithet to distinguish between a common or domestic mouse and a field mouse, between a house-snake and a field-snake. b. spec. Any of several North American colubrid snakes of the genera Elaphe and Lampropeltis, esp. the milk snake, L. triangulum. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Colubridae > member of genus Elaphe (rat-snake) chicken snake1698 Aesculapian1763 house snake1807 rat snake1818 pilot snake1854 fox-snake1857 the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Colubridae > member of genus Lampropeltis (king-snake) kingsnake1709 house snake1807 1807 in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1815) 2nd Ser. III. 54 The milk or house snake, speckled like a rattlesnake. 1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xxxix. 334 We went for the snakes, and grabbed a couple of dozen garters and house-snakes. 1915 Proc. National Acad. Sci. Philadelphia 67 161 Elaphe guttatus... Corn Snake; Rat Snake... House King Snake; House Snake; [etc.] 1958 R. Conant Field Guide Reptiles & Amphibians U.S. 171 Sometimes called ‘house snake’, but ‘barn snake’ would be more descriptive, for it would reflect the frequency with which farm buildings are entered in search of rodents. 1998 Daily News Los Angeles (Nexis) 20 Jan. They thought it was a house snake or a garden snake. c. spec. Any of several small, non-venomous African colubrid snakes of the genus Lamprophis (formerly Boaedon). Also with distinguishing word. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Colubridae > miscellaneous types of grey snake1703 garter-snake1775 boomslang1793 scarlet snake1842 blunt head1869 tiger-snake1869 house snake1870 ground-snake1885 lycodont1887 mole snake1893 sling-snake1895 file snake1912 mussurana1914 1870 Jrnl. Ethnol. Soc. London 1869–70 2 374 Zulus..believe that certain harmless common house-snakes are animated by the souls of deceased kindred. 1932 Discovery 13 364/2 The brown house snake, Boodon [sic] lineatus, is far more efficient than a cat in keeping down rats and mice, as it penetrates into their holes and destroys the young. 1962 V. F. M. FitzSimons Snakes S. Afr. 123/1 In search of its prey it is often attracted to, and found in and about, human settlements, and has thus got the name of House Snake. 2006 W. Schmidt Reptiles & Amphibians S. Afr. 20 The beautiful Aurora House Snake, Lamprophis aurora, is a distinctive species that has a pale white belly, yellow flanks and olive green body. 2. A snake believed to protect or watch over a household, esp. one kept as a household god. Cf. penates n. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [noun] > household god(s) > snake kept as house snake1799 household snake1871 the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > [noun] > member of (snake) > kept as household god house snake1799 household snake1871 1742 C. Owen Ess. Nat. Hist. Serpents 218 Ælian speaks of domestick Serpents, that were in the Houses of the Egyptians, and look'd upon as household Gods.] 1799 W. Tooke View Russ. Empire I. ii. ii. 510 Mahte was in general the childrens' goddess.., for whom they kept the domestic snakes..; and even to this day,..especially among the vulgar, the superstition is still retained of dreading to drive the house-snakes out of doors. 1817 Hume Jrnl. in R. Walpole Mem. relating to European & Asiatic Turkey & Other Countries of East (ed. 2) 397 They frequently place milk..for their subsistence, when..any snakes frequent the ruins of their dwellings. These house snakes grow to a large size, and are said to be quite harmless, and even tame. 1876 Contemp. Rev. 27 101 When the war of independence first broke out, many families were driven into exile by the..Turks; one of these..returned to their deserted home, and wept with delight at finding the house-snake still in possession. 1894 W. Crooke Pop. Relig. & Folk-lore N. India vii. 276 Should rain drive the house snake out of his hole, he is worshipped. 1935 A. J. Evans Palace of Minos IV. i. 153/2 When the house snakes died the master and mistress of the house died too. 1989 M. Gimbutas Lang. of Goddess i. xiv. 135 Romans had male house-snakes as guardians of penus (food, provision), called penates , known from countless Greco-Roman wall paintings. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1608
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