attern

From Middle English attern, from Old English ǣtren (“poisoned, poisonous, venomous”), from Proto-West Germanic *aittrīn (“poisonous”). Equivalent to atter +‎ -en.

• Rhymes: -ætə(ɹ)n

attern (comparative more attern, superlative most attern)

1. (UK dialectal) Venomous; poisonous.
2. (UK dialectal, of people) Cruel; fierce; ill-natured.

• attern-temper

• Arnett, natter, net art, ratten, tarten, treant

• atterne, hatterne

From Old English ǣtren, ættern, from Proto-West Germanic *aittrīn.

attern

1. Containing poison; poisonous, venomous.

• English: attern

• “attern, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 27 April 2018.