attercop — English Dictionary

Noun

1. A spider.

   Usage

   • Northern-England
   • dialectal

   Examples

   More examples (1)

   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?

2. A peevish or ill-natured person.

   Usage

   • Northern-England
   • dialectal