cobweb
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cobweb
- /ˈkɒbwɛb/
Where it comes from
From Middle English copweb, coppeweb, coppewebbe, from Old English ātorcoppe (“spider”) + Old English webb. Compare Middle Dutch kopwebbe, German Low German Kobbenwebbe (Westphalian). By surface analysis, cob (“spider”, obsolete) + web.
noun cobwebs · copweb
- A spiderweb, especially a large one, an old abandoned one covered with debris and dust or an asymmetrical one woven with an irregular pattern of threads. […] there was stretched across his gateway a circular cobweb of the largest kind and quite entire. This looked so ominous that I actually turned aside and went in the back way.
- One of a spiderweb's filaments; gossamer; anything flimsy and gauzy, intricately interconnected or otherwise like a cobweb. cobweb model, cobweb theory
- An intricate plot to catch the unwary; something entangling or confusing. I was confused by the cobwebs of contract law.
- Something thin and unsubstantial, or flimsy and worthless; valueless remainder. blow the cobwebs away
- Fuzzy inexact memories; confusion. I washed my face, trying to get the cobwebs of hard sex and an alcohol-induced sleep out of my head
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A web page that either has not been updated for a long time, or one that is rarely visited.
Similar: cobweb site
- The European spotted flycatcher, Muscicapa striata.
Talk about this word "cobweb." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/cobweb. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. cobweb. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/cobweb "cobweb." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/cobweb.Cite this
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title = {cobweb},
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