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Grim vs Attery - What's the difference?

grim | attery |

As a proper noun grim

is , probably derived from old english grimm' or old norse '''grimr''' or ' grimmr .

As an adjective attery is

(dialectal|or|archaic) poisonous; venomous.

As a noun attery is

(of weather|dialectal|or|archaic) cold, bleak weather.

grim

English

Adjective

(grimmer)
  • dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding
  • Life was grim in many northern industrial towns.
  • rigid and unrelenting
  • His grim determination enabled him to win.
  • ghastly or sinister
  • A grim castle overshadowed the village.
  • * 2012 March 22, Scott Tobias, “ The Hunger Games''”, in ''AV Club :
  • In movie terms, it suggests Paul Verhoeven in Robocop/Starship Troopers mode, an R-rated bloodbath where the grim spectacle of children murdering each other on television is bread-and-circuses for the age of reality TV, enforced by a totalitarian regime to keep the masses at bay.
  • (UK, slang) disgusting; gross
  • Wanna see the dead rat I found in my fridge? —Mate, that is grim !

    attery

    English

    Alternative forms

    * * (Scotland)

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • (dialectal, or, archaic) Poisonous; venomous
  • (dialectal, or, archaic) Pernicious
  • (of a wound or sore, dialectal, or, archaic) Purulent; containing pus or matter
  • (of mood or disposition, dialectal, or, archaic) Bad-tempered; spiteful; quarrelsome; peevish; angry; hot-headed
  • (of weather, dialectal, or, archaic) Cold; bleak; grim
  • Synonyms

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    Noun

    (-)
  • (of weather, dialectal, or, archaic) Cold, bleak weather.