Attery
adj, noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Cold, bleak weather. archaic, dialectal, uncountable
Adjective
- 1 Poisonous; venomous archaic, dialectal
- 2 Pernicious archaic, dialectal
- 3 Purulent; containing pus or matter archaic, dialectal
- 4 Bad-tempered; spiteful; quarrelsome; peevish; angry; hot-headed archaic, dialectal
- 5 Cold; bleak; grim archaic, dialectal
Etymology
From Middle English attery, attry, attri, ætriȝ, from Old English ǣttriġ, ǣtriġ (“poisonous”), from Proto-Germanic *aitrīgaz (“poisonous”). Cognate with Dutch etterig (“purulent”), German eiterig (“purulent, festering”), Swedish ettrig (“poisonous”). By surface analysis, atter (“poison”) + -y.
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