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ettercap

ettercap 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 ettercap

pluralettercaps

Questions about ettercap

What is ettercap the alternative form of?
Ettercap is the alternative form of attercop.

Words near ettercap in the dictionary

  1. Ettenberg
  2. Ettenbergs
  3. Etter
  4. Etterbeek
  5. Etterby
  6. ettercap
  7. ettercaps
  8. Etteridge
  9. ETTH
  10. Ettie
  11. ettin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ettercap (page history and authors); attercop (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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