English-Spanish translations for snail

• caracol
  Hemos avanzado a paso de caracol. We have moved forward at a snail's pace.
  En los once años que llevo en el Parlamento Europeo, entre tanto he aprendido que el progreso avanza a paso de caracol. I have learned in my eleven years in the European Parliament that progress here moves at a snail's pace.
  También estoy profundamente preocupado por el ritmo de caracol con que procedió la OLAF para investigar todo este lamentable asunto. I am also deeply concerned about the snail's pace at which OLAF worked in investigating this whole sorry matter.
• gandul
• haragán
• holgazán

Definition of snail

• Any of very many animals , of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell
• A slow person; a sluggard
• A tortoise or testudo; a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers
• The pod of the snail clover
• To move or travel very slowly

Related words

• snailery
• snailshell
• snailfish
• snaily
• Snailwell
• sea-snail
• snail mail
• Snail Kite
• snail's pace