GadflyWordNet Explorer
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noun
two-winged insects characterized by active flight
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stout-bodied hairy dipterous fly whose larvae are parasites on humans and other mammals
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hairy bee-like fly whose larvae produce lumpy abscesses (warbles) under the skin of cattle
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large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals
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a persistently annoying person
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someone who torments
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(Yiddish) someone who is a boring pest