attery
Cold, bleak weatherCold, bleak weather.
Meaning
1 senses(archaic, dialectal, uncountable)Cold, bleak weather.
Origin
From Middle English attery, attry, attri, ætriȝ, from Old English ǣttriġ, ǣtriġ (“poisonouFrom Middle English attery, attry, attri, ætriȝ, from Old English ǣttriġ, ǣtriġ (“poisonous”), from Proto-Germanic *aitrīgaz (“poisonous”). Cognate with Dutch etterig (“purulent”), German eiterig (“purulent, festering”), Swedish ettrig (“poisonous”). By surface analysis, atter (“poison”) + -y.
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Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable