different between snakey vs snaky

English

snakey (comparative more snakey, superlative most snakey)

snake +? -y

snaky (comparative snakier, superlative snakiest)

Resembling or relating to snakes.
Windy; winding; twisty; sinuous, wavy.
- 1942, Emily Carr, “Chain Gang”, in The Book of Small:^[1]
  The nuns’ veils billowed and flapped behind the snaky line of girls as if the sisters were shooing the serpent from the Garden of Eden.
(obsolete) sly; cunning; deceitful.
(obsolete) Covered with serpents; having serpents.
- 1634, John Milton, Comus, lines 447-452,^[2]
  What was that snaky-headed Gorgon shield
  That wise Minerva wore, unconquered virgin,
  Wherewith she freezed her foes to congealed stone,
  But rigid looks of chaste austerity,
  And noble grace that dashed brute violence
  With sudden adoration and blank awe?
- 1700, John Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite,”^[3]
  His hat adorned with wings disclosed the god,
  And in his hand he bore the sleep-compelling rod;
  Such as he seemed, when, at his sire’s command,
  On Argus’ head he laid the snaky wand.

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