aittrie

• aitrie, etri (Shetland)

Derived from Old Norse eitr (“poison”). Compare attery and ettery.

aittrie (comparative mair aittrie, superlative maist aittrie)

1. (Shetland) cold, bleak, bitter, grim (of weather)

aittrie (uncountable)

1. (Shetland) cold bleak weather

• “aittrie, adj. and n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.