slithering

English

Verb

slithering

  1. present participle and gerund of slither

Noun

slithering (plural slitherings)

  1. The act or action of one who slithers.
    • 1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 14:
      As I lay waiting I could hear a sort of murmurousness beyond the door. It seemed composed of whimperings, slitherings, and shufflings, punctuated occasionally by a raised voice in the distance.
    • 2003, Sarah Kay, Terence Cave, Malcolm Bowie, A Short History of French Literature, page 263:
      Here, Valéry is of the devil's party, and boasts of it throughout a long catalogue of serpentine slitherings and insinuations. To be a snake, the protagonist announces, is to be a thinker, to live by one's wits […]

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