adder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English nadder, addere, rebracketing of “a naddere” as “an addere”, from Old English nǣdre (“snake”), from Proto-West Germanic *nadrā, from Proto-Germanic *nadrǭ, from pre-Germanic *néh₁treh₂, variant of Proto-Indo-European *n̥h₁trih₂, from *(s)neh₁- (“to spin, twist”).
See also West Frisian njirre, Dutch adder, German Natter, Otter; also Welsh neidr, Latin natrīx (“watersnake”), Dutch naaien.
Inflected forms:
form: adders
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: edder
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dialectal
Senses:
gloss: Any snake.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: 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—
gloss: A name loosely applied to various snakes more or less resembling a viper.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: Entirely filled with the image of another, her heart, indeed, had the deaf ear of the adder, which heedeth not the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely.
These include the county's [Cumbria's] only venomous snake - the adder - which relies on exposed elements to successfully breed its young.
gloss: A name loosely applied to various snakes more or less resembling a viper.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: A name loosely applied to various snakes more or less resembling a viper.
pos: noun
gloss: A name loosely applied to various snakes more or less resembling a viper.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
gloss: A name loosely applied to various snakes more or less resembling a viper.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
gloss: A name loosely applied to various snakes more or less resembling a viper.
pos: noun
gloss: A name loosely applied to various snakes more or less resembling a viper.
pos: noun
gloss: A sea stickleback or adder fish (Spinachia spinachia).
pos: noun
Derived words: adder bead
adderbolt
adder fish
adder fly
adderlike
adder mouth
adder stone
adderwort
butterfly adder
common death adder
deaf adder
death adder
Gaboon adder
hissing adder
horned adder
Kimberley death adder
night adder
pit adder
pit-adder
puff adder
sea adder
water adder
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: adder
lang: Akan
word: nanka
lang: Armenian
word: իժ
roman: iž
lang: Asturian
word: víbora
lang: Azerbaijani
word: gürzə
lang: Bulgarian
word: пепелянка
roman: pepeljanka
lang: Catalan
word: escurçó
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 蝰蛇
roman: kuíshé
lang: Czech
word: zmije
lang: Danish
word: hugorm
lang: Dutch
word: adder
lang: Estonian
word: rästik
lang: Finnish
word: kyy
lang: French
word: vipère
lang: Galician
word: naia
lang: Galician
word: sacaveira
lang: Galician
word: áspide
lang: Galician
word: bichorro
lang: Georgian
word: გველგესლა
roman: gvelgesla
lang: German
word: Otter
lang: German
word: Viper
lang: German
word: Kreuzotter
lang: Greek
word: οχιά
roman: ochiá
lang: Greek
word: έχιδνα
roman: échidna
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἔχιδνα
roman: ékhidna
lang: Ido
word: vipero
lang: Ingrian
word: jaadumato
lang: Ingrian
word: kirjava mato
lang: Ingrian
word: gadjukka
lang: Irish
word: nathair nimhe
lang: Italian
word: vipera
lang: Italian
word: marasso
lang: Japanese
word: クサリヘビ
roman: kusari-hebi
lang: Japanese
word: 鎖蛇
roman: kusari-hebi
lang: Latin
word: aspis
lang: Latvian
word: odze
lang: Low German
word: Adder
lang: Low German
word: Krüüzadder
lang: Low German
word: Kriizadder
lang: Macedonian
word: гуја
roman: guja
lang: Eastern Mari
word: шемгишке
roman: šemgiške
lang: Western Mari
word: шим кӹшкӹ
roman: šim kÿškÿ
lang: Polish
word: żmija
lang: Portuguese
word: víbora
lang: Romanian
word: viperă
lang: Russian
word: гадю́ка
roman: gadjúka
lang: Sanskrit
word: पृदाकु
roman: pṛdāku
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: guja
lang: Sicilian
word: lìpira
lang: Sicilian
word: scursuni
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: zmija
lang: Spanish
word: víbora
lang: Swedish
word: huggorm
lang: Turkish
word: engerek
lang: Ukrainian
word: гадю́ка
roman: hadjúka