atter
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Etymology edit
From Middle English atter, ater, from Old English āttor, ǣttor, ātor (“poison”), from Proto-West Germanic *aitr, from Proto-Germanic *aitrą (“gland, matter”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyd-, *h₂oyd- (“tumor, abscess”).
Cognate with Scots attir (“corrupt matter, pus”), Scots atter, etter (“poison, venom”), Shetlandic eter (“poison; bitter cold”), Saterland Frisian Atter (“pus”), Dutch etter (“pus”), German Eiter (“poison, pus”), Danish edder, ædder (“venom”), Swedish etter (“poison, venom, virulence”), Norwegian eiter (“venom”), Icelandic eitur (“poison”).
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Noun edit
atter (plural atters)
- (archaic or UK dialectal) poisonous bodily fluid, especially venom of a venomous animal, such as a snake, dragon or other reptile; corrupt or morbid matter from the body, such as pus from a sore or wound; Bitter substance, such as bile
- (archaic, figuratively) moral corruption or corruptness; noxious or corrupt influence, poison to the soul, evil, anger, envy, hatred; destruction, death
- (UK dialectal) epithelium produced on the tongue
- (UK dialectal) a scab; a dry sore
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Translations edit
poisonous bodily fluid
moral corruption or corruptness
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Verb edit
atter (third-person singular simple present atters, present participle attering, simple past and past participle attered)
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atter
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Norwegian Bokmål edit
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atter
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
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atter
- aft (in the back of a boat)
- (chiefly poetic) again
- 1860, Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Vaaren:
- […] Heggen og Tre, som der Blomar er paa, eg atter saag bløma.
- […] once again I saw the bird cherry and the flowering trees in bloom.
References edit
- “atter” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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