cobwebby
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cobwebby
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English cobweb
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English cobwebby
From cobweb + -y.
adjective cobwebbier · cobwebbiest
- Having many cobwebs. Off this landing and over the studio was a dark cobwebby place, tangled with wiring, plumbing, ventilation and mystery.
- Resembling a cobweb or cobwebs. […] wonderful images of […] the cobwebby features of Ganymede […]
- Old or dated. As for changing the TV landscape, almost every programme it screened from 8pm until the early hours in the week beginning 11 August was either a repeat of one of its original transmissions or a re-run of cobwebby sitcoms and dramas it has bought from established terrestrial networks.
