attery

Meanings

Adj

Poisonous; venomous
Pernicious
Purulent; containing pus or matter
Bad-tempered; spiteful; quarrelsome; peevish; angry; hot-headed
Cold; bleak; grim

Noun

Cold, bleak weather.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English attery, attry, attri, ætriȝ, from Old English ǣttriġ, ǣtriġ (“poisonous”), from Proto-Germanic *aitrīgaz (“poisonous”). Cognate with Dutch etterig (“purulent”), German eiterig (“purulent, festering”), Swedish ettrig (“poisonous”). By surface analysis, atter (“poison”) + -y.

Synonyms

atterly

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