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atterly

atterly adjective: poisonous; attery.

Adjective

atterly (comparative more atterly, superlative most atterly)

  1. (archaic, dialectal) Poisonous; attery

Forms of atterly

comparativemore atterly
superlativemost atterly

Origin of atterly

From Middle English atterlich, from Old English ātorlīċ (“poisonous”). Compare Dutch etterlijk. By surface analysis, atter + -ly.

Questions about atterly

What does atterly mean?
Atterly means poisonous; attery.
What part of speech is atterly?
Atterly is an adjective.

Words near atterly in the dictionary

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

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