attery

Meanings

Adjective

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

Noun

• Cold, bleak weather.

Related

Similar words

• atterly

Origin

• From Middle English attery, attry, attri, ætriȝ, from Old English ǣttriġ, ǣtriġ, from Proto-Germanic *aitrīgaz, equivalent to atter + -y. Cognate with Dutch etterig ("purulent"), German eiterig ("purulent, festering"), Swedish ettrig ("poisonous").