cob·web (k b w b )n. 1. a. The web spun by a spider to catch its prey. b. A single thread spun by a spider. 2. Something resembling the web of a spider in gauziness or flimsiness. 3. An intricate plot; a snare: caught in a cobweb of espionage and intrigue. 4. cobwebs Confusion; disorder: cobwebs on the brain. tr.v. cob·webbed, cob·web·bing, cob·webs To cover with or as if with cobwebs. [Middle English coppeweb : coppe, spider (short for attercoppe, from Old English  ttercoppe : tor, poison + copp, head) + web, web; see web.]cob webby adj. |
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| Adj. | 1. |  cobwebby - so thin as to transmit light; "a hat with a diaphanous veil"; "filmy wings of a moth"; "gauzy clouds of dandelion down"; "gossamer cobwebs"; "sheer silk stockings"; "transparent chiffon"; "vaporous silks"diaphanous, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, see-through, vaporous, vapourous, gossamer, transparent, sheer thin - of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section; "thin wire"; "a thin chiffon blouse"; "a thin book"; "a thin layer of paint" |
| 2. | cobwebby - covered with cobwebs dirty, soiled, unclean - soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime; "dirty unswept sidewalks"; "a child in dirty overalls"; "dirty slums"; "piles of dirty dishes"; "put his dirty feet on the clean sheet"; "wore an unclean shirt"; "mining is a dirty job"; "Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves" |
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