Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

spiders georg

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.05 in modern English

Syllables
spi-der-s -ge-org
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

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.

Humorous

Example Sentences

Etymology

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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Inflected Forms

Spiders Georgs (plural)

Derived Forms

Questions

What does spiders georg mean?
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.
Where does spiders georg come from?
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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