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cobwebberies

cobwebberies is the plural of cobwebbery.

Meaning of cobwebbery

Noun

cobwebbery (countable and uncountable, plural cobwebberies)

  1. (figuratively) A mass of cobwebs; anything that obscures the vision or is elaborate yet flimsy.
    • When, across the hundredfold poor scepticisms, trivialisms and constitutional cobwebberies of Dryasdust, you catch any glimpse of a William the Conqueror, a Tancred of Hauteville or suchlike, — do you not discern veritably some rude outline of a true God-made King […]?1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, (please specify |book=I or IV, or the page)

Questions about cobwebberies

What is cobwebberies the plural of?
Cobwebberies is the plural of cobwebbery.

Words near cobwebberies in the dictionary

  1. cobweb spider
  2. cobweb spiders
  3. cobweb theories
  4. cobweb theory
  5. cobwebbed
  6. cobwebberies
  7. cobwebbery
  8. cobwebbier
  9. cobwebbiest
  10. cobwebbiness
  11. cobwebbing

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