flyblowとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

flyblow (plural flyblows)

1. An egg laid by a fly in animal flesh; a maggot hatched from such an egg.

上位語

• maggot

関連する語

• blowfly
• flyblown (adjective)

動詞

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 flesh; 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.

アナグラム

• blow fly, blowfly