flyblow

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Noun

flyblow (plural flyblows)

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

Translations

• Italian: cacchione

Verb

flyblow (flyblows, present participle flyblowing; 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.

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

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