deaf adder
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.67 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Our deaf adder resembles, in its short, puffy, repulsive appearance, the blow-adder of America."
- "The death, or deaf adder, is an ugly creature, and is considered highly dangerous."
- "The Death Adder is extremely sluggish in its habits, and rarely moves out of the way of persons approaching it; I am therefore inclined to think, that the original popular name assigned to this reptile, must have been Deaf Adder, instead of the Death Adder."
- "Another friend on a cruise, put his saddle down for a pillow at night as usual, and on lifting up the saddle-flaps the next morning, he observed a beastly deaf adder lying flat down."
- "Snakes of various sizes, from two to ten feet in length, including, perhaps, the venomous deaf adder"
- "The deaf adder is the most formidable “varmint” in Australia. There are two varieties; it is generally about two feet long. The bite is fatal. The deaf adder never moves unless it is touched, hence its name."
Usage
- British usage
- Australian usage
Inflected Forms
Phrases
Deaf Adder Creek
Deaf Adder Gorge