attercop

Definitions

1. A spider.
   Northern-England, dialectal
2. A peevish or ill-natured person.
   Northern-England, dialectal

Examples

“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 and sweat⟳.’”

“Old fat spider spinning in a tree! / Old fat spider can’t see⟳ me! / Attercop! Attercop! / Won’t you stop⟳, / Stop⟳ your spinning and look⟳ for me?”

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