cobweb

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A spiderweb, or the remains of one, especially an asymmetrical one that is woven with an…

   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.
   • A cobweb, night-spun, hung in an insidious circle from branch to branch, facing her. Early as it was, its first victim struggled in its gummy meshes.
2. 2

   One of its filaments

   One of its filaments; gossamer.

3. 3

   Something thin and unsubstantial, or flimsy and worthless

   Something thin and unsubstantial, or flimsy and worthless; valueless remainder.

   • blow the cobwebs away
   • The dust and cobwebs of that uncivil age.
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   1. 4

      An intricate plot to catch the unwary.

      • Entangled in the cobwebs of the schools.
   2. 5

      A web page that either has not been updated for a long time, or that is rarely visited.

   3. 6

      The European spotted flycatcher, Muscicapa striata.

   4. 7

      fuzzy inexact memories.

      • I washed my face, trying to get the cobwebs of hard sex and an alcohol-induced sleep out of my head
      • Veyz mir, meaning something like “Oh . . . my!,” was a Yiddish expression that I had not employed for a long, long time. Yet in the cobwebs of my memory, that expression was still lurking inside. How interesting!

The neighborhood

• neighborweb