eely

Resembling an eel: long, thin and slippery.

Adjective

  1. Resembling an eel: long, thin and slippery.
    • 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,...
    • 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." - 1904, George Manville Fenn, The Ocean Cat's Paw:
    • 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. - 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:

Origin

From eel + -y.

Forms

eelier eeliest