nadder

See also: Nadder

Middle English

Alternative forms

naddere, naddre, nadre, nedder, neddere, neddre, neder, nedere, nedre
(early) næddræ, næddre, neddræ
adder, addere, addre, ader, edder, eddere, eddre, hedder

Etymology

From Old English nædre.

Noun

nadder (plural nadders)

adder, or snake
- 1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “The Marchantes Tale”, in The Tales of Caunt́burẏ (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published c. 1400–1410], OCLC 14061358, folio 144, verso, lines 25–26:
  O · ẜuant traẏtour / falſe homlẏ hewe / Lẏk to the neddre in boſom / Sly vntrewe
  (please add an English translation of this quote)
  - 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Marchauntes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], OCLC 230972125; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, OCLC 932884868, folio xxxiii, recto, lines 17–18, column 2:
    O ſeruaunt traytour,falſe homely hewe / Lyke to the adder ſlye in boſome vntrewe
    (please add an English translation of this quote)
  - 1394, Chaucer, “v. 1786”, in The Merchant's Tale‎:
    O seruant traitur fals holy hiew / y-lyke to þe nadder sleize and in bosom untrewe
    (please add an English translation of this quote)

Descendants

English: adder, edder (by rebracketing)
Scots: edder

References

“nā̆ddre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
nadder in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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