cobwebby
adjEtymology From cobweb + -y.
1
Having many cobwebs.
- Off this landing and over the studio was a dark cobwebby place, tangled with wiring, plumbing, ventilation and mystery.1944, Emily Carr, “Attic Eagles”, in The House of All Sorts:
2
Resembling a cobweb or cobwebs.
- […] wonderful images of […] the cobwebby features of Ganymede […]1980, Carl Sagan, chapter VI, in Cosmos, Random House, published 2002:
3
Figuratively Old or dated.
- As for changing the TV landscape, almost every programme it screened from 8pm until the early hours in the week beginning 11 August was either a repeat of one of its original transmissions or a re-run of cobwebby sitcoms and dramas it has bought from established terrestrial networks.2014 August 22, Private Eye, number 1373, page 15:
- Synonyms
- cobwebbed, spider-webby, aged, hoary, obsolete
- Derived terms
- cobwebbiness