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† ˈattercop 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. A spider.
c1000Sax. Leechd. I. 92 Wiþ attorcoppan bite. a1250Owl & Night. 600 Wat etestu..Bute attercoppe and fule vliȝe? c1350MS. in R. Brunne's Chron. (Hearne) Pref. 200 An atturcoppe cum owte..and bote hem by the nekkus..þat ii. of hem weron deed. 1382Wyclif Isa. lix. 5 The webbis of an attercop [1388 an yreyn]. a1400Metr. Gloss. in Wright Voc. 177 Aranea, addurcop. c1425Wyntoun Cron. viii. xi. 46 Alsa kobbyd in his crope As he had ettyn ane attyrcope. a1450Knt. de la Tour (1868) 63 The attercoppe..makithe his nettes to take the flyes. 1658Rowland Mouffet's Theat. Ins. 1058 The English [call it] Attercop, Spider, Spinner. 1691Ray N. Countr. Wds. 139 Attercop.
2. fig. Applied to a venomous malignant person.
c1505Kennedie Flyting 523 Thow irefull attircop, Pilate, apostata. 1881W. H. Patterson Antrim Gloss. (E.D.S.) Attercap, cross-grained, ill-natured person, ‘Ya cross attercap, ya.’
3. Misapplied to: A spider's web.
1530Palsgr. 193/1 Addircop, or a spinner's web, araignee. 1674Ray N. Countr. Wds. 3 An Attercob, A Spiders Web. Cumberland. 1873R. Ferguson Cumberld. Dial. (E.D.S.). |