Meanings
- not comparablerareIn a snaking manner; serpentinely.
The snakingly complex, ductile, and extended syntax of Yeats's 'While I, from that reed-throated whisperer' is in the mix here, also.
2012, Fran Brearton, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry, page 5782 more examples
The anonymous writer asserts that the definition was inserted into the preamble only of the Act of 1643, and "subtilly and snakingly" made statutory in 1655 "all to gratify the conjobling^([sic]) of a Linsy Winsy Apothecary-Surgeons."
1905, The Practitioner, volume 75, page 107Amazonian in build, with a pretty face, Bindu often called herself an actress and snakingly pointed to a string of films where she was not clawed, pawed or jawed by her boss.
1985, Sûrya India, page 55
Origin
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