English
snailesque
From snail + -esque.
Formed from snail + -esque
Proto-Germanic *snagilaz
Old English sneġel ‘a snail or slug, a gastropod’
Middle English snayl ‘a snail or slug’
English snail
Today it means
adj Resembling or characteristic of snails, especially slow.
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Etymograph / snailesque