spider-webby
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]spider web + -y
Adjective
[edit]spider-webby (comparative more spider-webby, superlative most spider-webby)
- Resembling a spider web, or full of spider webs
- 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter IX, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:
- 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 leaves