gadfly (redirected from Gadflies)

gad·fly  (gdfl)

n.

1. A persistent irritating critic; a nuisance.

2. One that acts as a provocative stimulus; a goad.

3. Any of various flies, especially of the family Tabanidae, that bite or annoy livestock and other animals.

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[gad² + fly².]

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gadfly

Noun

pl -flies

1. a large fly that bites livestock

2. a constantly irritating person [obsolete gad sting]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	gadfly - a persistently annoying person blighter, cuss, pesterer, pest nudnick, nudnik - (Yiddish) someone who is a boring pest persecutor, tormenter, tormentor - someone who torments
	2.	gadfly - any of various large flies that annoy livestock fly - two-winged insects characterized by active flight botfly - stout-bodied hairy dipterous fly whose larvae are parasites on humans and other mammals warble fly - hairy bee-like fly whose larvae produce lumpy abscesses (warbles) under the skin of cattle cleg, clegg, horse fly, horsefly - large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals