Definitions for adder

adder ad·der

Spelling: [ad-er]
IPA: /ˈæd ər/

Adder is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 52 anagrams from letters in adder (adder).

Definitions for adder

noun

  1. the common European viper, Vipera berus.
  2. any of various other venomous or harmless snakes resembling the viper.
  3. a person or thing that adds.

Origin of adder

before 950; late Middle English; replacing Middle English nadder (a nadder becoming an adder by misdivision; cf. apron), Old English næddre; cognate with Old Saxon n

Examples for adder

Afterwards he seized hold of an adder, and was not bitten by it.

And who was like to think, till he did see, what an adder the King nursed in his bosom?

Saxham started as though an adder had flashed its fangs through his boot.

Supporters,—not captives nor victims; the Cockatrice and adder.

Monsey jumped, with a scream, out of his seat as though stung by an adder.

The good Book says, 'it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder!'

I will show you the pit of your own heart, Padahoon, and the adder that bites at the root of it.

It is more venemous than the adder, it is more destructive than hebenon or madragora.

The adder (nieder or nether snake) saying that he is mud, and will be mud.

Burke started, as if the tones of his companion's voice had stung him like an adder.

Word Value for adder
Scrable

7

Words with friends

7

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