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attercrop

attercrop is the alternative form of attercop.

Meaning of attercop

Noun

attercop (plural attercops)

  1. (Northern England, dialectal) A spider.
    • 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...1924, Robert Graves, Attercop: the All-Wise Spider
  2. (Northern England, dialectal) A peevish or ill-natured person.

Forms of attercrop

pluralattercrops

Questions about attercrop

What is attercrop the alternative form of?
Attercrop is the alternative form of attercop.

Words near attercrop in the dictionary

  1. Atterbury
  2. Atterburys
  3. Attercliffe
  4. attercop
  5. attercops
  6. attercrop
  7. attercrops
  8. atterly
  9. attern
  10. atterrate
  11. atterrated

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