"snaily" meaning in English

See snaily in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: snailier [comparative], snailiest [superlative]
Etymology: snail + -y Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|snail|y}} snail + -y Head templates: {{en-adj|snailier}} snaily (comparative snailier, superlative snailiest)
  1. Resembling or characteristic of a snail.

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for snaily meaning in English (1.8kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "snail",
        "3": "y"
      },
      "expansion": "snail + -y",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "snail + -y",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "snailier",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "snailiest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "snailier"
      },
      "expansion": "snaily (comparative snailier, superlative snailiest)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -y",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1851, Charles Dickens, Household Words, volume 3, page 422",
          "text": "So he and Dr. Hutton, the geologist, agreed that they would rise above the narrow fancies of the vulgar, and prove their philosophy by dining together on a snaily mess. They met, the dish of snails was brought to table, and the cover being removed, the two great men looked at their dinner with countenances very blank indeed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Timothy Morton, The Ecological Thought, page 99",
          "text": "In other words, simply because we're sentient—let's set the bar low to ensure that even snails and the snailiest humans are also responsible—we're obliged to address global warming.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Resembling or characteristic of a snail."
      ],
      "id": "en-snaily-en-adj-PVIA2yTz",
      "links": [
        [
          "snail",
          "snail"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "snaily"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "snail",
        "3": "y"
      },
      "expansion": "snail + -y",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "snail + -y",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "snailier",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "snailiest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "snailier"
      },
      "expansion": "snaily (comparative snailier, superlative snailiest)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English 2-syllable words",
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms suffixed with -y",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1851, Charles Dickens, Household Words, volume 3, page 422",
          "text": "So he and Dr. Hutton, the geologist, agreed that they would rise above the narrow fancies of the vulgar, and prove their philosophy by dining together on a snaily mess. They met, the dish of snails was brought to table, and the cover being removed, the two great men looked at their dinner with countenances very blank indeed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Timothy Morton, The Ecological Thought, page 99",
          "text": "In other words, simply because we're sentient—let's set the bar low to ensure that even snails and the snailiest humans are also responsible—we're obliged to address global warming.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Resembling or characteristic of a snail."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "snail",
          "snail"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "snaily"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-31 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (91e95e7 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.