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Language: Old English
Origin: snaca

snake

1 noun
     
snake
Related topics: Animals
snake1 S3 [countable]
1HBA an animal with a long thin body and no legs, that often has a poisonous bite:
A snake slithered across our path.
2 also snake in the grass informal someone who cannot be trusted
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