flyblown
See also: fly-blown
English
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edit- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈflaɪˌbləʊn/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈflaɪˌbloʊn/
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Adjective
editflyblown (comparative more flyblown, superlative most flyblown)
- contaminated with flyblows
- 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vii]:
- Him that thou magnifiest with all these titles
Stinking and fly-blown lies here at our feet.
- tainted
- sordid, squalid
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editcontaminated with flyblows
tainted
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