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spidership

spidership noun: honorific used to address or refer to a spider.

Noun

spidership

  1. (nonce-word) honorific used to address or refer to a spider.
    • When I saw her spidership my war-cry would have turned a Filipino bolo-man green with envy.1916, Caroline Saxe Shunk, An Army Woman in the Philippines: Extracts from Letters of an Army Officer's Wife, page 86
    • A companion at once crushed his spidership, for which on afterthought I was sorry, as I should like to have cut the spider for examination.1893, Charles Valentine Riley, Leland Ossian Howard, Insect Life - Volume 5, page 348
  2. (nonce-word) The state or quality of being a spider.
    • [Moth about the Dog:] Bein' a bug is all a matter of legs [...] Four more an' he [could have] made spidership.1959 May 23, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 43

Origin of spidership

From spider + -ship.

Questions about spidership

What does spidership mean?
Spidership means honorific used to address or refer to a spider.
What part of speech is spidership?
Spidership is a noun.

Words near spidership in the dictionary

  1. spiderous
  2. spiderphobia
  3. spiders
  4. Spiders Georg
  5. spiders' webs
  6. spidership
  7. spidertaur
  8. spidertaurs
  9. spiderweb
  10. spiderwebbed
  11. spiderwebbing

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