spidery
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spidery
- /ˈspaɪ.dɚ.i/ US
Where it comes from
From spider + -y.
adjective spiderier · spideriest
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Like a spider.
“En passant,” if nothing else, would have revealed to Joe, in this imitation of a better trick, the hand of Eugene. […] “Sometimes,” said Eskew, “I think that ’Gene Bantry is jest a leetle bit spiderier than he is lazy.[…]”
Similar: spideresque, spiderish, spiderlike
- Characterized by many spindly extensions. The spidery construction looked like it would fall apart in a stiff breeze.
- Suggestive of cobwebs; spiderweb-like.
- Infested with or containing many spiders.
- Cramped or illegible; especially when spiky. 'I cannot make head or tail of it,' confessed Miss Barrowford, as the senseful fingers crossed and recrossed the scrawl, now following a vague spidery line, now drawn where no visible mark appeared to lead. 'Is there any meaning, do you think?'
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