viper

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person who is considered dangerous

   The jail cell was full of vipers.

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.

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