English
Etymology
From snake + skin.
Pronunciation
Noun
snakeskin (countable and uncountable, plural snakeskins)
- The skin of a snake
- (usually uncountable) The hide of a snake, used as leather.
- (countable) The moult of a snake.
Hyponyms
Translations
skin of a snake
- Albanian: zharg (sq) m
- Classical Nahuatl: cōāēhuatl
- Danish: slangeskind n, slangeham c (rare)
- Japanese: 蛇皮 (jabi)
- Macedonian: змиска кожа f (zmiska koža)
- Malayalam: പാമ്പിൻതോൽ (pāmpiṉtōl)
- Portuguese: pele de cobra f
- Russian: змеи́ная ко́жа f (zmeínaja kóža)
- Spanish: piel de serpiente f
- Swedish: ormskinn (sv) n
- Tamil: சட்டை (ta) (caṭṭai), பாம்புச்சட்டை (ta) (pāmpuccaṭṭai), பாம்புத்தோல் (pāmputtōl)
- Turkish: yılan derisi (tr)
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Adjective
snakeskin (not comparable)
- Made of snakeskin.
1932, Dorothy L Sayers, chapter 10, in Have His Carcase:Sort of dago fellow; leads the orchestra down at the Winter Gardens ... You know the sort, all lah-di-dah and snakeskin shoes.