snakeling
nounEtymology From snake + -ling.
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Diminutive Diminutive of snake.
- But just as Teddy was stooping, something flinched a little in the dust, and a tiny voice said: "Be careful. I am death!" It was Karait, the dusty brown snakeling that lies for choice on the dusty earth; and his bite is as dangerous as the cobra's. But he is so small that nobody thinks of him, and so he does the more harm to people.1894, Rudyard Kipling, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi:
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a snake hatchling
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a young snake
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a small snake