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sadder

English

Adjective

sadder

  1. comparative form of sad: more sad

Anagrams

  • Adders, adders, dreads, re-adds, readds, sarded

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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)

  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).

Derived terms

  • adder fish
  • death adder
  • puff adder (Bitis arietans)

Translations

Etymology 2

From add +? -er.

Noun

adder (plural adders)

  1. Someone who or something which performs arithmetic addition; a machine for adding numbers.
  2. An electronic device that adds voltages, currents or frequencies.
  3. 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)

  1. 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)

  1. viper, adder; snake of the family Viperidae
  2. 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

  1. imperative of addere

Old Prussian

Conjunction

adder

  1. or
    w?iklis adder m?rg? - boy or girl
  2. but

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