attercop

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English attercoppe, from Old English ātorcoppe (“spider”), corresponding to atter (“poison, venom”) +‎ cop (“spider”). The latter is still to be found in the English word cobweb. Cognate to Danish edderkop (“spider”) and Norwegian edderkopp (“spider”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈætəkɒp/ === Noun === attercop (plural attercops) (dialectal, Northern England) A spider. (dialectal, Northern England) A peevish or ill-natured person. ==== Descendants ==== Translingual: Attercopus === Anagrams === capretto, catopter == Yola == === Etymology === From Middle English attercoppe, from Old English ātorcoppe. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈatərˌkɔp/ === Noun === attercop spider === References === Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 23