Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The egg or larva of a blowfly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make flyblown; taint with or as if with flyblows: chiefly in figurative uses.
- To deposit eggs on meat or the like, as a fly.
- noun The egg of a fly, the presence of which in numbers on meat, etc., makes it tainted and maggoty.
- Of the nature of flyblow; flyblown.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To deposit eggs upon, as a flesh fly does on meat; to cause to be maggoty; hence, to taint or contaminate, as if with flyblows.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of the eggs or young larvæ deposited by a flesh fly, or blowfly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
larva of theblowfly , especially when found on rotten meat.
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Examples
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If you didn't have good schools for that man's children and his team's children, you knew he would flyblow South Carolina and industry would never come.
Sen. Fritz Hollings: Best Off-Broadway Show Sen. Fritz Hollings 2010
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If you didn't have good schools for that man's children and his team's children, you knew he would flyblow South Carolina and industry would never come.
Sen. Fritz Hollings: Best Off-Broadway Show Sen. Fritz Hollings 2010
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If you didn't have good schools for that man's children and his team's children, you knew he would flyblow South Carolina and industry would never come.
Sen. Fritz Hollings: Best Off-Broadway Show Sen. Fritz Hollings 2010
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If you didn't have good schools for that man's children and his team's children, you knew he would flyblow South Carolina and industry would never come.
Sen. Fritz Hollings: Best Off-Broadway Show Sen. Fritz Hollings 2010
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If you didn't have good schools for that man's children and his team's children, you knew he would flyblow South Carolina and industry would never come.
Sen. Fritz Hollings: Best Off-Broadway Show Sen. Fritz Hollings 2010
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Though his net intrants wight weighed nought but a flyblow to his gross and ganz afterduepoise.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Grubs -- or flyblow, description and treatment, 481 under the skin, description and treatment, 481
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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The oil of vainglory feeds the lamp; sinister aims corrupt and flyblow our holy things.
The Lord's Prayer 1692
yarb commented on the word flyblow
He led me to an unfrequented part of the house, and opened his business thus -- Worthy sir, I make it a point of conscience to give you a very serious warning. You are aware that the Marquis de Marialva had at first taken a fancy to Narcissa, my wife; he had even gone so far as to fix a day for trying the relish of my rib, when that cockatrice Estella contrived to flyblow the bill of fare, and transfer the banquet to her own untainted charms.
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 7 ch. 11
October 2, 2008