Attercop
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈætəkɒp/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Attercop is a noun meaning (dialectal, Northern England) A spider.
Meaning
(dialectal, Northern England) A spider.
More Meanings
- (dialectal, Northern England) A peevish or ill-natured person.
Example Sentences
Old fat spider spinning in a tree! / Old fat spider can’t see me! / Attercop! Attercop! / Won’t you stop, / Stop your spinning and look for me?
Myself, not bound by James’ view / Nor Walter’s, in a vision saw these two / Like trapped and weakening flies / In toils of the same hoary net; / I seemed to hear ancestral cries / Buzzing ‘To our All-Wise, Omnivorous / Attercop glowering over us, / Whose table we have set / With blood and bones and sweat.’
Word Forms
- attercops
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include trap, tranter, toe rag, spider, spide, toerag.
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