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cobweb

Noun

cobweb (plural cobwebs)

A spiderweb, or the remains of one, especially an asymmetrical one that is woven with an irregular pattern of threads.
- 1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter X. "Provincetown", page 200.
  […] 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.
One of its filaments; gossamer
(figurative) Something thin and unsubstantial, or flimsy and worthless; valueless remainder.
- The dust and cobwebs of that uncivil age.
An intricate plot to catch the unwary
- Entangled in the cobwebs of the schools.
(internet slang, rare) A web page that either has not been updated for a long time, or that is rarely visited
The European spotted flycatcher, Muscicapa striata.
(informal, usually, in the plural) fuzzy inexact memories
- 2008 Burlan Eugene Ellison The Ebony Coffin: A Jim Kirkwood Novel ↗ page 98
  I washed my face, trying to get the cobwebs of hard sex and an alcohol-induced sleep out of my head
- 2012 Stanley M. Bierman Napoleon's Penis: Plus Other Engaging and Outrageous Tales ↗ page 16
  Veyz rnir, 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!
- 2019 Hot Blood, Hot Thoughts, Hot Deeds ↗, Empire season 5 episode 13
  I'm just saying, you being a mama, it's time to clear the cobwebs. You know what I'm saying? Put a banana in the monkey. You know, hot dog in your bun.

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