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  • noun Alternative term for a blowfly.

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Examples

  • The boys may find greater delight in buzzing bottlefly than in cube root; but the schoolmaster hammers, hammers, hammers, until he has painfully hammered cube root into their heads.

    Again the Literary Aspirant 1902

  • The boys may find greater delight in buzzing bottlefly than in cube root; but the schoolmaster hammers, hammers, hammers, until he has painfully hammered cube root into their heads.

    Again the Literary Aspirant 1902

  • Speaker to Animals "(a bit off, there, given Obama could never pass as even a bottlefly on a Kzin, but the 'junior diplomat' bit fits perfectly.)

    Serr8d's Cutting Edge 2008

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