spidership

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noun

honorific used to address or refer to a spider.

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Meanings

noun
  1. nonce wordhonorific used to address or refer to a spider.

    When I saw her spidership my war-cry would have turned a Filipino bolo-man green with envy.

    1916, Caroline Saxe Shunk, An Army Woman in the Philippines: Extracts from Letters of an Army Officer's Wife, page 86
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    A companion at once crushed his spidership, for which on afterthought I was sorry, as I should like to have cut the spider for examination.

    1893, Charles Valentine Riley, Leland Ossian Howard, Insect Life - Volume 5, page 348

    A friend, who was specially interested in such studies, having captured a spider, erected a column in a basin filled with water; and placing his spidership on the top of the column, sat down to watch results.

    1884, The Reformed Presbyterian and Covenanter - Volumes 22-23, page 332
  2. nonce wordThe state or quality of being a spider.

    [Moth about the Dog:] Bein' a bug is all a matter of legs [...] Four more an' he [could have] made spidership.

    1959 May 23, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 43

Origin

From spider + -ship.

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APA

spidership. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spidership

MLA

“spidership.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spidership. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “spidership,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spidership.

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