Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Resembling a snail or its motion; snail-like.

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  • adjective Resembling a snail

Etymologies

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snail +‎ -y

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Examples

  • As for the Elm St. lamb - covered in snails, no eyes, but a cute little sprig of blossoms in its wooly/snaily fringe.

    Lamb Fleeces 2010

  • PS I can't see anything obviously snaily on your Turkish blog, unless imparatorluğun means emperor slug.

    Holy chocolate! AYDIN 2009

  • June 22, 2009 at 9:44 am youcanhasstay-k-shun. along wiff snaily and turtlol!

    OMG! SLOW DOWN! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • I always thought my stuff and most of my comments here were far too puerile for a serious snaily chap like yourself to read.

    Multifarious gallimaufry of odds and ends AYDIN 2009

  • Hey, you snaily people actually look pretty normal!

    Thinking about the American Malacological Society meeting AYDIN 2008

  • On the escaladder he told someone, "It's cruel to tie ticklers to slow-witted snaily humans when ticklers can think and live ... ten thousand times as fast," he finished, plucking the figure from the murk of his unconscious.

    The Creature from Cleveland Depths Fritz Leiber 1951

  • "See, now will I charm this snaily from its cell with the air that Réné taught _me_," and together the two heads bent over one of the vicious little "desert snails of Egypt," which young Isabelle of Tyre had found crawling along the casement of the palace.

    Historic Boys Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times Elbridge Streeter Brooks 1874

  • Perhaps it would be a little shore crab that betrayed itself by scuffling down amongst the corallite or sea-weed, perhaps a little fierce-looking bristly fish, which shot under a ledge of the rock all amongst the limpets, acorn barnacles, or the thousands of yellow and brown and striped snaily fellows that crawled about in company with the periwinkles and pelican's feet.

    Devon Boys A Tale of the North Shore George Manville Fenn 1870

  • Do they then go mad on the beer and drown after intoxification, dying for the snaily equivalent of a kebab?

    Irish Blogs 2009

  • After installing Airport Extreme Update 2008-004 my download speed went snaily.

    Discussions: Message List - root 2008

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