Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

puff adder

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.63 in modern English

Syllables: puff ad-der
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any viper or adder in genus Bitis,

noun

Any viper or adder in genus Bitis,

Example Sentences

"In the pools, too, was a species of small alligator or enormous iguana, I do not know which, that fed, Billali told me, upon the waterfowl, also large quantities of a hideous black water-snake, of which the bite is very dangerous, though not, I gathered, so deadly as a cobra's or a puff adder's."

Etymology

Borrowed from Afrikaans or South African Dutch pofadder.

Origin

Source language: Afrikaans

Word Breakdown

Root: -, pofadder

Inflected Forms

puff adders (plural) puffadder (alternative) puff-adder (alternative)

Phrases

forest puff adder

Synonyms

African adder hognose snake sand viper bitis arietans

Questions

What does puff adder mean?: Any viper or adder in genus Bitis,
Where does puff adder come from?: It is traced to Afrikaans.

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