SNAKE OIL

Meaning of SNAKE OIL in English

Function: noun

Date: 1917

1 : any of various substances or mixtures sold (as by a traveling medicine show) as medicine usually without regard to their medical worth or properties

2 : POPPYCOCK , BUNKUM

Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary. Merriam Webster - Энциклопедический словарь английского языка. 2012

SNAKE OIL — noun Date: 1917 any of various substances or mixtures sold (as by a traveling medicine show) as medicine usually without …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
SNAKE OIL — I. noun : any of various substances or mixtures sold (as by a traveling medicine show) as medicine usually without …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SNAKE OIL — — snake-oil , adj. 1. any of various liquid concoctions of questionable medical value sold as an all-purpose curative, esp. …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SNAKE OIL — liquid that is sold as a cure-all medication by traveling salesman (usually as a scam); deception, trickery, fraud (Slang)
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
SNAKE OIL — Date: 1917 1. : any of various substances or mixtures sold (as by a traveling medicine show) as medicine usually …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
SNAKE OIL — ■ noun informal, chiefly N. Amer. a substance with no real medicinal value sold as a cure-all.
Concise Oxford English vocab
SNAKE OIL — [snake oil] n (1927) 1: any of various substances or mixtures sold (as by a traveling medicine show) as medicine …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
SNAKE OIL — noun [ U ] ( informal , especially NAmE ) something, for example medicine, that sb tries to sell you, …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SNAKE OIL — ˈsnake oil BrE AmE noun [uncountable] especially American English informal 1 . something that is claimed to be a solution …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
SNAKE OIL — noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ For all his odd and scary views, Buchanan has played the fear card like a …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
SNAKE OIL — (американизм) средство от всех болезней (шарлатанское)
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
SNAKE OIL — амер. средство от всех болезней ( шарлатанское )
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
SNAKE-OIL — жидкость, которую продают как лекарство (обычно странствующие шарлатаны) фальшивая забота, подделка
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
SNAKE OIL — жидкость, которую продают как лекарство (обычно странствующие шарлатаны) фальшивая забота, подделка
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
SNAKE OIL — амер. средство от всех болезней ( шарлатанское )
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
SNAKE OIL — амер. средство от всех болезней ( шарлатанское )
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
SNAKE-OIL — жидкость, которую продают как лекарство (обычно странствующие шарлатаны) фальшивая забота, подделка
Англо-Русский дополнительный словарь
SNAKE OIL — жидкость, которую продают как лекарство (обычно странствующие шарлатаны) фальшивая забота, подделка
Англо-Русский дополнительный словарь
SNAKE OIL — (американизм) средство от всех болезней (шарлатанское)
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
SNAKE — I Any member of about 19 reptile families (suborder Serpentes, order Squamata) that has no limbs, voice, external ears, or …
Английский словарь Британика
OIL — I Any greasy substance liquid at room temperature and insoluble in water. It may be a fixed (nonvolatile) oil, an …
Английский словарь Британика
SNAKE — I. ˈsnāk, dial ˈsnek noun ( -s ) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Old English snaca; akin to …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
OIL — I. ˈȯi]l dial ˈī]l, esp before pause or consonant ]əl\ noun ( -s ) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SNAKE — — snakelike , adj. /snayk/ , n. , v. , snaked, snaking . n. 1. any of numerous limbless, scaly, …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
OIL — — oilless , adj. — oillessness , n. — oillike , adj. /oyl/ , n. 1. any of a large …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SNAKE — v. twist or wind like a snake; move like a snake, move in a sinuous manner, glide; drag
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
SNAKE — I. ˈsnāk noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English snaca; akin to Old Norse snakr snake, Old High German snahhan …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
SNAKE — vi to crawl like a snake. 2. snake ·vt to drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; …
Webster English vocab
SNAKE — [snake] n [ME, fr. OE snaca; akin to ON snakr snake, OHG snahhan to crawl] (bef. 12c) 1: any of …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
SNAKE — also called serpent, any member of the reptile group Serpentes, with the Sauria (lizards) and Amphisbaenia (wormlike amphisbaenians), one of …
Britannica English vocabulary
SNAKE — snake, Snake BrE AmE sneɪk ▷ snaked sneɪkt ▷ snakes sneɪks ▷ snaking ˈsneɪk ɪŋ ▶ ˈ snake ˌ charmer …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
SNAKE — / sneɪk; NAmE / noun , verb ■ noun a reptile with a very long thin body and no legs. …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
OIL — / ɔɪl; NAmE / noun , verb ■ noun 1. [ U ] a thick liquid that is found in …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SNAKE — I. snake 1 /sneɪk/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Language: Old English ; Origin: snaca ] 1 . an animal …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
OIL — I. oil 1 S2 W1 /ɔɪl/ BrE AmE noun [ Date: 1100-1200 ; Language: Old French ; Origin: oile , …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
SNAKE — n. & v. --n. 1 a any long limbless reptile of the suborder Ophidia, including boas, pythons, and poisonous forms …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
OIL — n. & v. --n. 1 any of various thick, viscous, usu. inflammable liquids insoluble in water but soluble in organic …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
SNAKE — n. & v. n. 1 a any long limbless reptile of the suborder Ophidia, including boas, pythons, and poisonous forms …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
OIL — n. & v. n. 1 any of various thick, viscous, usu. inflammable liquids insoluble in water but soluble in organic …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
SNAKE — n. & v. --n. 1. a any long limbless reptile of the suborder Ophidia, including boas, pythons, and poisonous forms …
Oxford English vocab
OIL — n. & v. --n. 1. any of various thick, viscous, usu. inflammable liquids insoluble in water but soluble in organic …
Oxford English vocab
OIL — ( oils, oiling, oiled) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. Oil is …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SNAKE — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES garter snake grass snake poisonous snake ▪ She was bitten on the ankle by …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
OIL — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a computer/phone/oil etc company ▪ an international oil company an energy/oil/fuel crisis ▪ There …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
SNAKE — n. black snake coral snake garter snake hognose snake indigo snake king snake rat snake sea snake Snake River water …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
SNAKE — n. Any member of about 19 reptile families (suborder Serpentes, order Squamata) that has no limbs, voice, external ears, or …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
OIL — n. Arabian American Oil Company crude oil castor oil plant cod liver oil essential oil Gulf Oil Corp. Millikan oil …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
SNAKE
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
OIL — Synonyms and related words : Barbados tar, Haliver Oil, Macassar oil, absinthe, adipose tissue, adulation, aid, alcohol, animal oils, anoint, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
SNAKE — I. noun ADJECTIVE ▪ deadly ▪ one of the world's deadliest ~s ▪ poisonous , venomous ▪ giant , huge …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
SNAKE — n. 25B6; noun the snake shed its skin : poetic/literary serpent; Zoology ophidian; Austral./NZ rhyming slang Joe Blake. See list. …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
SNAKE — n. 1 reptile, serpent, ophidian, viper A specialist in snakes is called a herpetologist 2 snake in the grass, traitor, …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
OIL — Of the numerous substances, animal and vegetable, which were known to the ancients as yielding oil, the olive berry is …
Smith's Bible English Dictionary
SNAKE — сущ. 1) змея apoisonous, venomous snake ≈ ядовитая змея snakes bite, strike snake ≈ змеи кусают snakes coil ≈ змеи …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
OIL — I 1. сущ. 1) а) хим. масло (обык. минеральное) fixed oils, fatty oils ≈ жирные (нелетучие) масла volatile oils, essential …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
SNAKE — snake.ogg 1. sneık n 1. зоол. змея ( Serpentes gen. ) constricting snakes - удавы ( Boinae ) chicken snake …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
OIL — oil.ogg 1. ɔıl n 1. масло ( обыкн. растительное или минеральное ) vegetable oil - растительное масло olive palm, cottonseed, …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
OIL — 1) масло ( растительное, минеральное, смазочное ) 2) смазывать( маслом); промасливать 3) масляный 4) нефть ( все жидкие углеводороды, получаемые …
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь
OIL — 1) масло (растительное, минеральное, смазочное) 2) смазывать( маслом); промасливать 3) масляный 4) нефть (все жидкие углеводороды, получаемые из скважин, и конденсаты, извлекаемые из …
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь - РУССО
OIL — 1) вымасливать 2) замасливать 3) масло 4) маслобойный 5) маслоотводный 6) маслосъемный 7) маслоуказательный 8) масляный 9) нефть 10) нефтяной 11) пропитывать 12) размасливать 13) смазка 14) смазывать 15) тартальный • balakhany crude oil — нефть …
Англо-Русский научно-технический словарь
SNAKE — snake сущ.1) змея a poisonous, venomous snake — ядовитая змея a harmless snake — безвредная змея snakes bite, strike — …
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
SNAKE — 1. sneık n 1. зоол. змея ( Serpentes gen. ) constricting snakes - удавы ( Boinae ) chicken snake - …
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
OIL — 1. ɔıl n 1. масло ( обыкн. растительное или минеральное ) vegetable oil - растительное масло olive palm, cottonseed, linseed …
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
SNAKE — 1. сущ. 1) змея a poisonous, venomous snake — ядовитая змея a harmless snake — безвредная змея snakes bite, strike …
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике

Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary

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