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attery

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
at-tery
IPA
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Poisonous; venomous

Archaic

adj

Pernicious

Archaic

adj

Purulent; containing pus or matter

Archaic

adj

Bad-tempered; spiteful; quarrelsome; peevish; angry; hot-headed

Archaic

adj

Cold; bleak; grim

Archaic

noun

Cold, bleak weather.

Archaic; Uncountable

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.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: attery, ǣttriġ, *aitrīgaz

Usage

Inflected Forms

more attery (comparative) most attery (superlative) attry (alternative) att'ry (alternative) aitrie (alternative, Scotland) aittrie (alternative, Scotland) etri (alternative, Scotland)

Frequently Paired Words

atter

Synonyms

atterly

Questions

What does attery mean?
Poisonous; venomous
Where does attery come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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