atter

• attir, etter (Scotland)

From Middle English atter, ater, from Old English āttor, ǣttor, ātor (“poison”), from Proto-Germanic *aitrą (“gland, matter”), from Proto-Indo-European *ayd-, *oyd- (“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”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈætə/
• Rhymes: -ætə(ɹ)

atter (plural atters)

1. (archaic or Britain dialectal) Poison, venom, especially of a venomous animal.
2. (archaic or Britain dialectal) Pus, corrupt or morbid matter from a sore or wound.
3. (Britain dialectal) Epithelium produced on the tongue.
4. (Britain dialectal) A scab; a dry sore.

• attercop
• atteril
• attering
• atterly
• attermite
• attern
• atter-pile
• atterscar
• attery

atter (third-person singular simple present atters, present participle attering, simple past and past participle attered)

1. (Britain dialectal) To venom; sting.
2. (Britain dialectal) To discharge, as a sore; clot; curdle; cake.

• Treat, tater, teart, tetra, tetra-, treat

From Old Norse aptr.

• IPA^(key): /atər/, [ˈad̥ɐ]

atter

1. again

• igen

From Old Norse aptr.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑtər/
• Rhymes: -ər

atter

1. again

From Old Norse aptr.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑtːɛr/

atter

1. aft (in the back of a boat)
2. (mostly 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.

• “atter” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.