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spider-webby

spider-webby adjective: resembling a spider web, or full of spider webs.

Adjective

spider-webby (comparative more spider-webby, superlative most spider-webby)

  1. Resembling a spider web, or full of spider webs
    • the rain would thrash along by so thick that the trees off a little ways looked dim and spider-webby; and here would come a blast of wind that would bend the trees down and turn up the pale underside of the leaves1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter IX, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC

Forms of spider-webby

comparativemore spider-webby
superlativemost spider-webby

Origin of spider-webby

From spider web + -y.

Questions about spider-webby

What does spider-webby mean?
Spider-webby means resembling a spider web, or full of spider webs.
What part of speech is spider-webby?
Spider-webby is an adjective.

Words near spider-webby in the dictionary

  1. spider-sense
  2. spider-senses
  3. spider-tailed horned viper
  4. spider-tailed horned vipers
  5. spider-web
  6. spider-webby
  7. spider-webs
  8. spiderdom
  9. spidered
  10. spideresque
  11. spideress

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