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[ spahy-duh-ree ] / ˈspaɪ də ri /
adjectivelike a spider or a spider's web. full of spiders. Origin of spideryFirst recorded in 1830–40; spider + -y1 Words nearby spideryspider vein, spider wasp, spiderweb, spiderwood, spiderwort, spidery, spiegeleisen, spiel, Spielberg, Spielberg, Steven, spieler Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for spiderySoon Stilts would be stepping his spidery legs over me to face off with Frank. ‘Tracing the Blue Light’: Read Chapter 1 of Eileen Cronin’s ‘Mermaid’|Eileen Cronin|April 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST Around the edges in her own spidery scrawl she would ask how I was. She Taught Me to Cook—and Called Me a Klutz|Sandra McElwaine|August 6, 2009|DAILY BEAST Here is a large pile of spectacles, a spidery mass of rusted wire-frames and dusty lenses. My Visit To Hell|Christopher Buckley|January 30, 2009|DAILY BEAST So did the spidery bridge that swings the ferry across the Old Harbour's mouth. Essays in Rebellion|Henry W. Nevinson
My underpinning is good, too; I'm not one of these fellows with spidery legs and a barrel-chest. The Valley of the Giants|Peter B. Kyne The others heard, but went on somnolently feeding with spidery movements of their lean arms. It splashed like a liquid flame over men and metal and twisted the towers and buttresses into spidery tendrils of glowing thread. The Peacemaker|Alfred Coppel He sprang among the wires with a spidery sort of agility, caught one, pulled and hung upon it with, all his weight. The Best Psychic Stories|Various
British Dictionary definitions for spidery
adjectivethin and angular like a spider's legsspidery 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 |