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Definition: ATTERCOP

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. A spider.[Websters]
2. A peevish, ill-natured person.[Websters].

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Date "Attercop" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1388. (references)

Specialty Definition: ATTERCOP

Domain Definition
Literature Attercop An ill-tempered. person, who mars all sociability. Strictly speaking, the attercop is the poison-spider. (Anglo-Saxon, atter, poison; cop, spider. Our cob-web should be cop-web, i.e. spider-web.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Definition: ATTERCOP

Part of SpeechDefinition
Noun1. A spider.[Websters]
2. A peevish, ill-natured person.[Websters].

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Date "ATTERCOP" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1388. (references)

Specialty Definition: ATTERCOP

DomainDefinition
LiteratureAttercop An ill-tempered. person, who mars all sociability. Strictly speaking, the attercop is the poison-spider. (Anglo-Saxon, atter, poison; cop, spider. Our cob-web should be cop-web, i.e. spider-web.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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