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Cobweb

//ˈkɒbwɛb// noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A spiderweb, or the remains of one, especially an asymmetrical one that is 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."

  2. 2
    a dense elaborate spider web that is more efficient than the orb web wordnet
  3. 3
    One of its filaments; gossamer.
  4. 4
    filaments from a web that was spun by a spider wordnet
  5. 5
    Something thin and unsubstantial, or flimsy and worthless; valueless remainder. figuratively

    "blow the cobwebs away"

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  1. 6
    a fabric so delicate and transparent as to resemble a web of a spider wordnet
  2. 7
    An intricate plot to catch the unwary.

    "Entangled in the cobwebs of the schools."

  3. 8
    A web page that either has not been updated for a long time, or that is rarely visited. Internet, rare
  4. 9
    The European spotted flycatcher, Muscicapa striata.
  5. 10
    fuzzy inexact memories. informal, plural-normally

    "I washed my face, trying to get the cobwebs of hard sex and an alcohol-induced sleep out of my head"

Etymology

From Middle English copweb, coppeweb. Compare Middle Dutch kopwebbe, German Low German Kobbenwebbe (Westphalian). By surface analysis, cob (“spider”, obsolete) + web.

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