Crossword clues for eely
eely
- Hard to grab hold of
- Hard to control
- Like a long, slithery fish
- Hard to grab onto
- Challenging to corner
- Wriggly, slippery and serpentine
- Wriggly and hard to grasp
- Sorta fishy, sorta snaky
- Like a moray
- Hard to get hold of
- Hard to capture
- Wriggly and slimy
- Wet and wriggly
- Tough to catch
- Slippery and slimy
- Prone to wriggling
- Long and slimy
- Like a greased pig
- Hard to get a grip on
- Elusive, slippery
- Elusive and slippery
- Tough to tackle
- Tough to hold
- Too slippery and slimy to grasp
- Suggestive of a moray's motions
- Slippery, in a way
- Slippery in a fishy way
- Slippery and hard to catch
- Really wiggly
- Not easy to hang onto
- Long, wet, and snakelike
- Long and undulating
- Long and squirmy
- Long and slippery
- Like some sushi
- Hard to hold onto
- Hard to hold down
- Difficult to capture
- Slippery and slithery
- Hard to pin down
- Wriggling
- Hard to grasp, say
- Hard to hold on to
- Serpentlike
- Like elvers
- Squirming
- Hard to catch, in a way
- Snakelike
- Sinuous
- Slimy and serpentine
- Slithery and slimy
- Evasive and congerlike
- Difficult to grasp, as an elongated fish
- Slippery like a fish
- Tough to grasp
- Slippery as a fish
- Tough to get ahold of
- Anguilliform
- Hard to handle, in a way
- Elusive, in a way
- Lampreylike
- Slithering
- Wriggly and slippery, e.g
- Like a conger, e.g
- Not easily held
- Hard to keep hold of
- Difficult to hold
- Squiggly and wriggly
- Smooth and slippery
- Like a snipefish
- Very hard to handle
- Very slippery
- Slippery and snaky
- Wet and snakelike
- Hard to hang on to
Wiktionary
eely
a. Resembling an eel: long, thin and slippery
Usage examples of "eely".
He climbed over the sedge and eely oarweeds and sat on a stool of rock, resting his ashplant in a grike.
He climbed over the sedge and eely oarweeds and sat on a stool of rock, resting his ashplant in a grike.
It twitched and writhed like a fish out of water, which it was, even if it looked eely in the extreme.