attercop

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈætəkɒp/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A spider. Northern-England,dialectal
    — 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.’
  2. A peevish or ill-natured person. Northern-England,dialectal

词形变化

attercops plural

词源

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”).
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