adder

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈædɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ædə(ɹ)

From Middle English addere, rebracketing of "a naddere" as "an addere", from Old English nǣdre, nǣddre (“snake, serpent, viper, adder”), from Proto-Germanic *nadrǭ (“snake, viper”) (compare West Frisian njirre, Dutch adder, German Natter, Otter), from pre-Germanic *néh₁treh₂, variant of Proto-Indo-European *n̥h₁trih₂ (compare Welsh neidr, Latin natrīx ‘watersnake’), from *(s)neh₁- (“to spin, twist”) (compare Dutch naaien). More at needle.

adder (plural adders)

1. (obsolete) Any snake.
   • 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II Scene 2

     CALIBAN:

     [...]

     His spirits hear me,

     And yet I needs must curse. But they'll nor pinch

     Fright me with urchin-shows, pitch me i'th' mire,

     Nor lead me like a firebrand in the dark

     Out of my way, unless he bid 'em; but

     For every trifle are they set upon me,

     Sometimes like apes that mow and chatter at me,

     And after bite me; then like hedgehogs, which

     Lie tumbling in my barefoot way, and mount

     Their pricks at my footfall; sometimes am I

     All wound with adders, who with their cloven tongues

     Do hiss me into madness—

     [...]

2. A name loosely applied to various snakes more or less resembling the viper; a viper.
   1. (chiefly Britain) A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera
      1. The common European adder (Vipera berus).
   2. The puff adders, of Africa (genus Bitis).
   3. (US, Canada) Any of several small nonvenomous snakes resembling adders
      1. Lampropeltis triangulum (milk snake).
      2. Heterodon spp. (hog-nosed snakes), a genus of harmless colubrid snakes found in North America
   4. Certain venomous snakes resembling other adders
      1. Acanthophis spp. (death adders), elapid snakes found in Southeast Asia and Australia
      2. Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen, the northern copperhead, a venomous viper found in the eastern United States
   5. A sea stickleback or adder fish (Spinachia spinachia).

• adder fish
• puff adder (Bitis arietans)

From add +‎ -er.

adder (plural adders)

1. Someone who or something which performs arithmetic addition; a machine for adding numbers.
2. Something which adds or increases.

   They sought out cost adders with an eye toward eliminating them.

• carry-lookahead adder
• carry-save adder
• carry-skip adder
• full adder
• half adder

• adder on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• dared, dread, radde, re-add, readd

From Dutch adder, from Middle Dutch adder, adre, misdivison of nadder, nadre, from Old Dutch *nadra, from Proto-Germanic *nadrǭ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈadər/

adder (plural adders, diminutive addertjie)

1. viper, adder

From Middle Dutch adder, adre, misdivison of nadder, nadre, from Old Dutch *nadra, from Proto-Germanic *nadrǭ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑ.dər/

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• Hyphenation: ad‧der
• Rhymes: -ɑdər

adder m or f (plural adders or adderen, diminutive addertje n)

1. viper, adder
2. common viper, Vipera berus

• addergebroed
• een adder aan zijn borst koesteren
• een addertje onder het gras

• Afrikaans: adder

• dader

adder

1. imperative of addere

adder

1. or

   wāiklis adder mērgā - boy or girl

2. but