attercopとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈætəkɒp/

名詞

attercop (plural attercops)

1. (dialectal, Northern England) A spider.
   • 1924, Robert Graves, Attercop: the All-Wise 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 and sweat.’

   • 1937 September 21, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “Flies and Spiders”, in The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again, revised edition, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published February 1966 (August 1967 printing), →OCLC, page 157:

     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. (dialectal, Northern England) A peevish or ill-natured person.

派生した語

• Translingual: Attercopus

アナグラム

• capretto, catopter