flyblow

English

Etymology

From fly +‎ blow (as in “strike”). Compare fly strike and strikefly.

Noun

flyblow (plural flyblows)

1. The larva of the blowfly, especially when found on rotten meat.

Hypernyms

• maggot

Related terms

• flyblown (adj)
• flyspeck

Translations

Translations

• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• French: please add this translation if you can
• German: Schmeißfliegenmade f
• Italian: cacchione m
• Mongolian: авгалдай (mn) (avgaldaj)

Verb

flyblow (third-person singular simple present flyblows, present participle flyblowing, simple past flyblew, past participle flyblown)

1. (transitive) To deposit eggs upon, as a blowfly does on meat; to cause to be maggoty.
2. (transitive, by extension) To taint or contaminate.
   • 1676, Edward Stillingfleet, A Defence of the Discourse Concerning the Idolatry Practised in the Church of Rome:

     I am unwilling to believe that he designs to play tricks, and to flyblow my words, to make others distaste them.

Anagrams

• blow fly, blowfly