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† Attercop. World English Historical Dictionary

† Attercop. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1888, rev. 2024. † Attercop Obs. or dial. Forms: 1 attorcoppa, 1–5 attercoppe, 4 atturcoppe, addurcop, 5 attyrcope, -coppe, 6 att-, addircop, 7 attercob, 9 attercap, 4–9 attercop. [OE. attorcoppa, f. átor, attor, poison † coppa, deriv. of cop top, summit, round head, or copp cup, vessel; in reference to the supposed venomous properties of spiders. Cf. also Du. spinne-cop ‘spider,’ and COB-WEB, formerly cop-webbe; whence it appears probable that the simple coppa was itself = ‘spider.’]

1   1.  A spider.

2 c. 1000.  Sax. Leechd., I. 92. Wiþ attorcoppan bite.

3 a. 1250.  Owl & Night., 600. Wat etestu … Bute attercoppe and fule vliȝe?

4 c. 1350[?].  MS., in R. Brunne’s Chron. (Hearne), Pref. 200. An atturcoppe cum owte … and bote hem by the nekkus … þat II. of hem weron deed.

5 1382.  Wyclif, Isa. lix. 5. The webbis of an attercop [1388 an yreyn].

6 a. 1400.  Metr. Gloss., in Wright’s Voc., 177. Aranea, addurcop.

7 c. 1425.  Wyntoun, Cron., VIII. xi. 46. Alsa kobbyd in his crope As he had ettyn ane attyrcope.

8 a. 1450.  Knt. de la Tour (1868), 63. The attercoppe … makithe his nettes to take the flyes.

9 1658.  Rowland, trans. Moufet’s Theat. Ins., 1058. The English [call it] Attercop, Spider, Spinner.

10 1691.  Ray, N. Countr. Wds., 139. Attercop.

11   2.  fig. Applied to a venomous malignant person.

12 c. 1505.  Kennedie, Flyting, 523. Thow irefull attircop, Pilate, apostata.

13 1881.  W. Patterson, Antrim Gloss. (E. D. S.), Attercap, cross-grained, ill-natured person, ‘Ya cross attercap, ya.’

14   3.  Misapplied to: A spider’s web.

15 1530.  Palsgr., 193/1. Addircop, or a spinner’s web, araignee.

16 1674.  Ray, N. Countr. Wds., 3. An Attercob, A Spiders Web. Cumberland.

17 1873.  R. Ferguson, Cumberld. Dial. (E. D. S.).

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