Dictionary

water snake en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A snake that resides in, or spends a lot of time in, fresh water.
2. A toy consisting of a liquid and (optionally) plastic trinkets encased in a long, soft, plastic torus. It is difficult to grip.
   • Trying to pin him down on any one topic, much less a specific time and place, is like trying to hold onto a Water Snake toy—as soon as I think I have a firm grip, he comes gooshing out the other side. 2010 November 1, Mike McMullen, I, Superhero!! :: We Wear Tights So You Won't Have To, Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN:
   • In this Order, "toy water snake” means a toy that is a flexible tube which contains water and which is made of any rubber or plastics. 1968, Great Britain, Statutory Instruments:
   • Or to put it differently, tactility reveals the body as a single self-enclosed surface, like a Klein bottle or one of those “water snake” toys, a kid's novelty, in its own way a polymorphous sleeve or screen over which libidinous and[…] 2017 November 28, Keith Leslie Johnson, Jan Svankmajer, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN:
   • It slips out of your hands easily, like a water-snake toy. 2020 November 12, Reni Eddo-Lodge, Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 64:
   • Each time I tried to define it and pin it down to take a closer look, it seemed to slip away from me like one of those water snake toys that you can never hold on to. And then one day I finally discovered the problem. 2015 September 15, M. R. O'Connor, Resurrection Science: Conservation, De-Extinction and the Precarious Future of Wild Things, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 221:
   • She imagined a long pink tube with a winking hole at the end sliding from a body, like a grisly penis or one of those water-snake balloon toys kids give hand jobs to. 2016 August 22, Michelle Tea, Black Wave, The Feminist Press at CUNY, →ISBN, page 155:

Forms

Coordinates

sea snake

Hypernyms

snake · creature · reptile · animal

Relateds

eel

Synonyms

water wigglie · water wiggler · water wienie

Translations (24)

nl waterslang (type of snake) · ug سۇيىلان (type of snake) · bsa moirom du (type of snake) · nch akoatl (type of snake) · de Wasserschlange (type of snake) · fi vesikäärme (type of snake) · nv tótłʼiish (type of snake) · hi दुंदुभ (type of snake) · la natrix (type of snake) · bsa moigon (type of snake) · ja にょろにょろ棒 (toy) · unm mpiaxkuk (type of snake) · bg водна змя (type of snake) · dv ދަހަނާގަ (type of snake) · bsa moi (type of snake) · cmn 水蛇 (type of snake) · hi धोड़ (type of snake) · ko 물뱀 (type of snake) · grc ὕδρος (type of snake) · hu sikló (type of snake) · hu vízisikló (type of snake) · ko 미끌이 (toy) · nhw akoatl (type of snake) · hi डोंड़हा (type of snake)