"eely" meaning in English

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      "form": "eelier",
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          "ref": "1850, George Manville Fenn, Menhardoc",
          "text": "The great ugly sharky fish was hooked forward by Josh and placed in a great basket, where it lay writhing its eely tail, and flapping its wing-like fins as the boat slowly progressed, and bait after bait was replaced, many being untouched, the thornback, skate, or ray being the only fish taken.",
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          "ref": "1904, George Manville Fenn, The Ocean Cat's Paw",
          "text": "That was a great long eely thing; but Joe Cross here says this was more like a great turtle, with flippers and a long neck, and a head like a snake.\"",
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          "ref": "1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae",
          "text": "Any eely creature that manages to blow itself up from “Pink, lank and warm” to a long wiener doing the hula tends to seize the imagination of us moderns.",
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          "text": "Veteran alto saxist Lou Donaldson faces the audience with a raised eyebrow and a toothy grin, and his horn's high-pitched, eely timbre--which still has plenty of the grease that made him a soul-jazz hero in the 60s and 70s--complements his squeaky voice.",
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        "Resembling an eel: long, thin and slippery."
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "Thin and slippery",
          "word": "aalglatt"
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      "form": "eelier",
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      "form": "eeliest",
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          "text": "The great ugly sharky fish was hooked forward by Josh and placed in a great basket, where it lay writhing its eely tail, and flapping its wing-like fins as the boat slowly progressed, and bait after bait was replaced, many being untouched, the thornback, skate, or ray being the only fish taken.",
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          "ref": "1904, George Manville Fenn, The Ocean Cat's Paw",
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