Etymology

Spiders Georg

Today it means: A notional extreme outlier in a population; originally characterized as a cave-dwelling hermit who eats 10,000 spiders per day and thus skews the statistical average for all humanity. Full definition →

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From a 2013 Tumblr post by Max Lavergne inventing a satirical explanation for a popular urban legend claiming that the average person swallows three spiders a year: "Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 [spiders] each day, is an outlier adn^([sic]) should not have been counted."

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