Associations to the word «Viper»

Wiktionary

VIPER, noun. A venomous snake in the family Viperidae.
VIPER, noun. A dangerous, treacherous, or malignant person.

Dictionary definition

VIPER, noun. Venomous Old World snakes characterized by hollow venom-conducting fangs in the upper jaw.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne