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Definition of "flyblow" []

  • The egg or larva of a blowfly, usually deposited on meat. (noun)
  • To deposit flyblows on. (verb-transitive)
  • To contaminate; taint. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "flyblow" in a sentence
  • "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."
  • "Though his net intrants wight weighed nought but a flyblow to his gross and ganz afterduepoise."
  • "Grubs -- or flyblow, description and treatment, 481 under the skin, description and treatment, 481"
Words like "flyblow"
flyblew
flyblowing