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spidery

[ spahy-duh-ree ]

adjective

  1. like a spider or a spider's web.
  2. full of spiders.


ˈ辱

/ ˈ貹ɪəɪ /

adjective

  1. thin and angular like a spider's legs

    spidery handwriting

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of spidery1

First recorded in 1830–40; spider + -y 1
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Todd Haynes’ discomfiting melodrama shines a light into the spidery crannies of human behavior.

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Leaping high on impossibly long legs, he used his spidery arms to swat away shots that seemed destined to swish through the net Friday.

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For the longest time, many astrophysicists and cosmologists have assumed that newborn galaxies would look like the orbs and spidery discs familiar in the modern universe.

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And on 4 May, after a visit from the matron at 10:30 in the morning, she notes in spidery letters - "I have the virus".

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One was of a spare, spidery web done in ink on paper.

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