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spidey | slidey |

As a noun spidey

is .

As an adjective slidey is

(informal) tending to slide or cause sliding; slippery.

spidey

English

Noun

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  • Nonce diminutive form of spider, most often used in connection with the characteristics of the fictional superhero, .
  • *1978 , Princeton Alumni Weekly , Volume 79, page 8:
    • 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.
  • *1981 , Ebony Jr. , Oct. 1981, Vol. 9, No. 4, page 25:
    • 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.
  • *1983 , Boys' Life , Jan 1983, Vol. 73, No. 1, page 21:
    • Only Spider-Man's spidey powers can get us out of this!
  • *2013 , Gerry Conway, ?Leah Wilson, Webslinger: Unauthorized Essays On Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man , page 32:
    • [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).

    Quotations

    (English Citations of "Spidey")

    Derived terms

    *Spidey senses

    slidey

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (informal) Tending to slide or cause sliding; slippery.
  • * 1998 , Charles Rosen, Barney Polan's game: a novel of the 1951 college basketball scandals (page 58)
    • I always prefer playing indoors on a soft, bouncy, slidey wood surface because outdoor asphalt courts release the day's heat slowly and the softened tar sucks at the bottoms of your sneakers.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=July 15, author=Jon Pareles, title=Sounds Dire, Droll, Dreamy and on the Edge of Kitsch, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Tunes with titles like “Mazurka Maracaibo” shimmer with countless plucked strings. Mr. Brozman deploys everything from the small Bolivian charango to a Finnish harp called the kantele, while there’s usually something slidey to carry the melody. }}