Home › Words › S › spidershipspidershipspidership means honorific used to address or refer to a spider.EtymologyFrom spider + -ship.nounhonorific used to address or refer to a spider.e.g.“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:The state or quality of being a spider.e.g.“[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:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).