puff addern.

Brit.

/ˈpʌf ˌadə/, U.S.

/ˈpəf ˌædər/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: puff v., adder n.¹

Etymology: < puff v. + adder n.¹, so called from its defensive behaviour. In sense 1 after South African Dutch pofadder (Afrikaans pofadder).

1. A short, stout, and dangerously venomous African viper, Bitis arietans, which is normally sluggish, but in defence inflates the upper part of the body and hisses loudly when exhaling and inhaling. Also (usually with distinguishing word): any of several other African vipers of the genus Bitis.

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puff adder1789

1789 W. Paterson Narr. Four Journeys Country of Hottentots 164 The Puff Adder..has its name from blowing itself up to near a foot in circumference.

1824 W. J. Burchell Trav. Interior S. Afr. I. 469 It is well known in the colony by the name of the Pof-Adder (Puff Adder). Its venom is said to be most fatal.

1871 C. Kingsley At Last I. ii. 76 But who will call the Puff Adder of the Cape..anything but ugly and horrible?

1915 Chambers's Jrnl. 12 June 437/1 Perhaps the most loathsome of the snakes of Natal is the dreaded puff-adder.

1931 R. L. Ditmars Snakes of World xiii. 177 The Berg Adder, B. atropos, and the Cape Puff Adder, B. inornata, occur in extreme southerly Africa.

1969 Times 15 Sept. (Uganda Suppl.) p. vi/8 Puff adders were sacred at Budo, so only Europeans could kill them.

2001 R. Dawkins in Devil's Chaplain (2003) vi. 231 I'm terrified of puff adders, mambas and scorpions.

2. U.S. A hognose snake (genus Heterodon), which has defensive behaviour similar to that of Bitis arietans but is a non-venomous colubrid.

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the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Colubridae > member of genus Heterodon (hog-nose)

hognose1737

hog-nosed snake?a1808

spreading adder1836

adder1842

spread head1844

puff adder1882

blowing adder1884

spread adder1902

1882 Amer. Naturalist 16 566 Twice afterward I noticed this strange habit of the puff adders.

a1910 ‘M. Twain’ Autobiography (1924) I. 103 Snakes..liked to lie in it [sc. a road] and sun themselves; when they were rattlesnakes or puff-adders, we killed them.

1930 Nature Mag. Mar. 165/1 The little hog-nosed snake, or puff adder as it is more commonly called,..is one of the easiest of all the snakes to photograph.

2004 London (Ont.) Free Press (Nexis) 28 July b3 The reptile is likely an eastern hognose, a harmless reptile locally nicknamed a puff adder but only because it acts like its lethal counterpart.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	puff adder
释义	puff addern. Brit. /ˈpʌf ˌadə/, U.S. /ˈpəf ˌædər/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: puff v., adder n.¹ Etymology: < puff v. + adder n.¹, so called from its defensive behaviour. In sense 1 after South African Dutch pofadder (Afrikaans pofadder). 1. A short, stout, and dangerously venomous African viper, Bitis arietans, which is normally sluggish, but in defence inflates the upper part of the body and hisses loudly when exhaling and inhaling. Also (usually with distinguishing word): any of several other African vipers of the genus Bitis. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Viperidae (vipers) > genus Bitis > bitis arietans (puff-adder) puff adder1789 1789 W. Paterson Narr. Four Journeys Country of Hottentots 164 The Puff Adder..has its name from blowing itself up to near a foot in circumference. 1824 W. J. Burchell Trav. Interior S. Afr. I. 469 It is well known in the colony by the name of the Pof-Adder (Puff Adder). Its venom is said to be most fatal. 1871 C. Kingsley At Last I. ii. 76 But who will call the Puff Adder of the Cape..anything but ugly and horrible? 1915 Chambers's Jrnl. 12 June 437/1 Perhaps the most loathsome of the snakes of Natal is the dreaded puff-adder. 1931 R. L. Ditmars Snakes of World xiii. 177 The Berg Adder, B. atropos, and the Cape Puff Adder, B. inornata, occur in extreme southerly Africa. 1969 Times 15 Sept. (Uganda Suppl.) p. vi/8 Puff adders were sacred at Budo, so only Europeans could kill them. 2001 R. Dawkins in Devil's Chaplain (2003) vi. 231 I'm terrified of puff adders, mambas and scorpions. 2. U.S. A hognose snake (genus Heterodon), which has defensive behaviour similar to that of Bitis arietans but is a non-venomous colubrid. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Colubridae > member of genus Heterodon (hog-nose) hognose1737 hog-nosed snake?a1808 spreading adder1836 adder1842 spread head1844 puff adder1882 blowing adder1884 spread adder1902 1882 Amer. Naturalist 16 566 Twice afterward I noticed this strange habit of the puff adders. a1910 ‘M. Twain’ Autobiography (1924) I. 103 Snakes..liked to lie in it [sc. a road] and sun themselves; when they were rattlesnakes or puff-adders, we killed them. 1930 Nature Mag. Mar. 165/1 The little hog-nosed snake, or puff adder as it is more commonly called,..is one of the easiest of all the snakes to photograph. 2004 London (Ont.) Free Press (Nexis) 28 July b3 The reptile is likely an eastern hognose, a harmless reptile locally nicknamed a puff adder but only because it acts like its lethal counterpart. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1789
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