Spidey vs Spides - What's the difference?
spidey | spides |
Nonce diminutive form of spider, most often used in connection with the characteristics of the fictional superhero, .
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As nouns the difference between spidey and spides
is that spidey is nonce diminutive form of spider, most often used in connection with the characteristics of the fictional superhero, Spider-Man while spides is plural of spide.spidey
English
Noun
(-)- Seven months later he reappeared in his own comic book, The Amazing Spider-Man. In the 16 years since, Spidey (as his fans call him) has become the country's most popular superhero, appearing in 300 daily newspapers.
- In the closet Marvin found his sea shell collection, baseball cards, a stack of Spidey comic books, a jar of dead flies he had forgotten about, a paper bag filled with pine cones, and five cans of mud from Lake Washington.
- Only Spider-Man's spidey powers can get us out of this!
- [H]e's also written a Spidey' short story (“Arms and the Man” in 1997's Untold Tales of Spider-Man) and a '''Spidey novel (''Down These Mean Streets in 2005).
