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Etymology

From Middle French vipere, from Old French vipre, from Latin vīpera, contracted from vīvipara f (“viviparous”, adj.), from vīvus (“alive”, adj.) + parere (“to bear”, verb). Doublet of weever and wyvern.

derived from vīpera
derived from vipre
borrowed from vipere

Definitions

A venomous snake in the family Viperidae.
Any venomous snake.
3
A dangerous, treacherous, or malignant person.
- And aggravate my folly who committed / To ſuch a viper his moſt ſacred truſt / Of ſecreſie, my ſafety, and my life.
- Consider, for the love of Heaven, to what you run madly: will you take this viper into your bed?
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  A person who smokes marijuana.
  - Dreamed about a reefer five feet long / Mighty Mezz, but not too strong / You'll be high but not for long / If you're a viper

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Derived

blunt-nosed viper, carpet viper, chain viper, dilute Russell's viper venom time, eyelash bush viper, eyelash viper, Gabon viper, Gaboon viper, green pit viper, horned viper, lowlands hump-nosed pit viper, Nikolsky's viper, nourish a viper in one's bosom, pitless viper, pit viper, red viper, Russell's viper, Russell's viper venom clotting time, Russell's viper venom time, sand viper, saw-scaled viper, shore pit viper, spider-tailed horned viper, temple viper, viperfish, viperish, viper's bugloss, viper's grass

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for viper. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.