slithy

comparative slithier · superlative slithiest

1. lithe and slimy or slithery.

   The squid wrapped its slithy tentacles around its prey.

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   'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe.

   1871, Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky

   She wanted to wear these slithy, snaky gowns you see in the pictures in the hallways of the $3 photographers.

   1906, Good Housekeeping, volume 43, page 130

   Such a carriage is known as “an araba,” or alternatively as an yaili—a name which is probably onomatopœic, for it is about the “slithiest” thing that runs on wheels.

   1914, Edgar Thomas Ainger Wigram, The Cradle of Mankind: Life in Eastern Kurdistan

   Falling roof, hidden shafts, slithiest snakes could not have stopped me after that. I arrived in the sparkling area.

   1917, Gertrude Singleton Mathews, Treasure, page 126

   He sweeps down; a frog is pinioned / Swift arrives his faithful soul-mate / True-loves share their slithy dinner.

   2013, Jane Wilson-Howarth, A Glimpse of Eternal Snows