Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

attercop

/ˈætəkɒp/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: at-ter-cop
IPA: /ˈætəkɒp/

12

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

noun

A peevish or ill-natured person.

Example Sentences

"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.’"
"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?"

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”).

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: attercoppe, ātorcoppe

Regional Pronunciation

British English: /ˈætəkɒp/

Inflected Forms

attercops (plural)

Questions

How do you pronounce attercop?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈætəkɒp/.
What does attercop mean?: A spider.
Where does attercop come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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