• (RP) IPA: /ɹɪpˈtaɪl/
• (America) IPA: /ˈɹɛp.taɪl/

reptile (plural reptiles)

1. A cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia.
2. (figuratively) A mean or grovelling person.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In Six Volumes, volume (please specify ), London: Printed by A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292 ↗:

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     This work may, indeed, be considered as a great creation of our own; and for a little reptile of a critic to presume to find fault with any of its parts, without knowing the manner in which the whole is connected, and before he comes to the final catastrophe, is a most presumptuous absurdity.

   • , Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers

     "That reptile," whispered Pott, catching Mr. Pickwick by the arm, and pointing towards the stranger. "That reptile — Slurk, of the Independent!"

• mammal-like reptile
• ll mul
• reptilian
• reptilianness
• reptiliology
• reptiliologist
• reptiliologists

• French: reptile
• German: Kriechtier, Reptil, Wurm (poetic)
• Italian: reptilia, rettile
• Portuguese: réptil
• Russian: пресмыка́ющееся
• Spanish: reptil

reptile (not comparable)

1. Creeping; moving on the belly, or by means of small and short legs.
2. Grovelling; low; vulgar.

   a reptile race or crew; reptile vices

   • There is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution, but of fear.

   • And dislodge their reptile souls / From the bodies and forms of men.

• (creeping, crawling) reptilious, creeping, crawling; reptitious (obsolete)
• (contemptible) See Thesaurus:despicable