Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of the nature of, resembling, or abounding with cobwebs: as, cobwebby texture; a cobwebby house.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Abounding in cobwebs, or any fine web; resembling a cobweb.
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- adjective Having many
cobwebs . - adjective Resembling a cobweb.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective covered with cobwebs
- adjective so thin as to transmit light
Etymologies
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Examples
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Arachnoid, said of the veil when it is cobwebby, that is, formed of loose threads.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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Still, my feet fidgeted; there was a sort of "cobwebby" feeling on my face, and a tickling sensation in the small of my back, as I stood ready for my first ball, which convinced me I was by no means at home in my new position.
Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life Talbot Baines Reed 1872
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Small lance-shaped leaves, bright green, and kind of cobwebby, clasp together at the top of the stalk, then unwrap to reveal a globe of overlapping, minutely fringed bracts, satiny and tawny like Enstrom's toffee.
Aspen Times - Top Stories Anna Naeser Special to The Aspen Times Aspen, CO C 2009
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(Hmm, spell check identifies "cobwebby" as a word.
I sveikata! tragic_elegance 2009
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The narrative is written with what I can only describe as a very light hand – there is such delicacy in the early stages of the representation; a cobwebby string of language brings the Dickinsons together in a life that looks so patterned and regular but which turns out to be utterly fragile and insecure.
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Ukraine may have a cobwebby attitude to gay partnership, but our own adoption laws are also far too stringent.
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Any competent accountant in Hong Kong can fill you in: cobwebby corporate structures designed to confuse regulators and defy tax collectors; scattered ownership of key "company" assets such as stores or a corporate logo; multiple sets of books; even dodgy employees at local bank branches willing to proffer dummied-up cash-balance verifications to auditors.
Falling Out of Love with China Joseph Sternberg 2011
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Now lovingly relocated, cobwebby bookshelves and all, to a former auto showroom made of anciently huge Northwest timbers, on funky Capital Hill in Seattle.
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All this came back to me recently during a voracious reading session for my new gig -- my publisher has asked me to scour the cobwebby archives for volumes of forgotten lore for a new e-book series.
Varla Ventura: Paranormal Parlor Games Varla Ventura 2011
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All this came back to me recently during a voracious reading session for my new gig -- my publisher has asked me to scour the cobwebby archives for volumes of forgotten lore for a new e-book series.
Varla Ventura: Paranormal Parlor Games Varla Ventura 2011
mollusque commented on the word cobwebby
And then he laughed apologetically, rubbing his hands together, and looking out to sea again as if he wished to appear unconcerned; yet we saw that he wondered if we thought it ridiculous for a man of his age to have treasured up so much trumpery in that cobwebby place
--Sarah Orne Jewett, 1877, Deephaven
January 28, 2010