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edder
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English *edre, *eder, from Old English eder, edor (“hedge, fence”), from Proto-Germanic *edaraz, *eduraz (“hedge, border”). Cognate with Old High German etar.
Noun
edder (plural edders)
- Flexible wood worked into the top of hedge stakes, to bind them together.
Verb
edder (third-person singular simple present edders, present participle eddering, simple past and past participle eddered)
- (obsolete) To bind the top interweaving edder.
Etymology 2
Variant of adder.
Noun
edder (plural edders)
- An adder or snake.
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Etymology 3
From Middle English edre (“a vein, blood vessel”), from Old English ?dre (“a vein, artery; sinew”), from Proto-West Germanic *?dr? (“vein”).
Cognates include (from Germanic) Old Saxon -?ðara (Dutch ader), Old High German ?dra (German Ader), Old Norse æðr (Swedish åder); (from Indo-European) Ancient Greek ???? (êtor, “heart”), Latin uterus, Old Irish inathar (“entrails”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??d.?/
Noun
edder (plural edders)
- (rare, dialect or obsolete) A blood vessel.
Anagrams
- dered, dreed
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adder
English
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?æd?/
- Rhymes: -æd?(?)
Etymology 1
From Middle English nadder, addere, rebracketing of “a naddere” as “an addere”, from Old English n?dre, n?ddre (“snake, serpent, viper, adder”), from Proto-Germanic *nadr? (“snake, viper”) (compare West Frisian njirre, Dutch adder, German Natter, Otter), from pre-Germanic *néh?treh?, variant of Proto-Indo-European *n?h?trih? (compare Welsh neidr, Latin natr?x (“watersnake”)), from *(s)neh?- (“to spin, twist”) (compare Dutch naaien).
Alternative forms
- edder (dialectal)
Noun
adder (plural adders)
- (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—
- [...]
- 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II Scene 2
- A name loosely applied to various snakes more or less resembling the viper; a viper.
- (chiefly Britain) A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera
- The common European adder (Vipera berus).
- The puff adders, of Africa (genus Bitis).
- (US, Canada) Any of several small nonvenomous snakes resembling adders
- Lampropeltis triangulum (milk snake).
- Heterodon spp. (hog-nosed snakes), a genus of harmless colubrid snakes found in North America
- Certain venomous snakes resembling other adders
- Acanthophis spp. (death adders), elapid snakes found in Southeast Asia and Australia
- Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen, the northern copperhead, a venomous viper found in the eastern United States
- A sea stickleback or adder fish (Spinachia spinachia).
- (chiefly Britain) A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera
Derived terms
- adder fish
- death adder
- puff adder (Bitis arietans)
Translations
Etymology 2
From add +? -er.
Noun
adder (plural adders)
- Someone who or something which performs arithmetic addition; a machine for adding numbers.
- An electronic device that adds voltages, currents or frequencies.
- Something which adds or increases.
Derived terms
- carry-lookahead adder
- carry-save adder
- carry-skip adder
- full adder
- half adder
Translations
Further reading
- adder on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- dared, dread, radde, re-add, readd
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch adder, from Middle Dutch adder, adre, misdivison of nadder, nadre, from Old Dutch *nadra, from Proto-Germanic *nadr?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ad?r/
Noun
adder (plural adders, diminutive addertjie)
- viper, adder
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch adder, adre, misdivison of nadder, nadre, from Old Dutch *nadra, from Proto-West Germanic *nadr?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.d?r/
- Hyphenation: ad?der
- Rhymes: -?d?r
Noun
adder m or f (plural adders or adderen, diminutive addertje n)
- viper, adder; snake of the family Viperidae
- common viper, Vipera berus
Hypernyms
- slang
Derived terms
- addergebroed
- boomadder
- een adder aan zijn borst koesteren
- een addertje onder het gras
- groefkopadder
- pofadder
Descendants
- Afrikaans: adder
Anagrams
- dader
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
adder
- imperative of addere
Old Prussian
Conjunction
adder
- or
- w?iklis adder m?rg? - boy or girl
- but
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