1) Annoying critic 2) Annoying insect 3) Annoying person 4) Annoying sort 5) Blighter 6) Cuss 7) Exclusively Saxon word 8) Exclusively Anglo word 9) One who may bug you 10) Persecutor 11) Persistent pest 12) Persistent, irritating critic 13) Pest 14) Pesterer 15) Pestering insect 16) Political troublemaker
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1) Blighter 2) Botfly 3) Cleg 4) Clegg 5) Cuss 6) Nag 7) Nudnick 8) Nudnik 9) Pest 10) Pesterer
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- a persistently annoying person
- any of various large flies that annoy livestock
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A gadfly is a fly that annoys horses and other livestock, usually a horse-fly or a botfly. Gadfly can also refer to: ...
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[database] Gadfly is a relational database management system written in Python. Gadfly is a collection of Python modules that provides relational database functionality entirely implemented in Python. It supports a subset of the standard RDBMS Structured Query Language (SQL). Gadfly runs wherever Python runs and supports client/server on an...
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[mythology] The gadfly, a type of fly plaguing cattle, typically ones belonging to either the family Tabanidae (horse-flies) or the family Oestridae (bot flies), appears in Greek mythology as a tormenter to Io, the heifer maiden. Zeus lusts after Io and eventually turns her into a white heifer to hide her from his jealous wife, Hera. Hera i...
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• (n.) Any dipterous insect of the genus Oestrus, and allied genera of botflies.
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A nickname for a 'professional' securityholder who owns stock in various companies, attends annual meetings and asks senior management hard and often embarrassing questions.
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<entomology> Any dipterous insect of the genus Oestrus, and allied genera of botflies. ... The sheep gadfly (Oestrus ovis) deposits its young in the nostrils of sheep, and the larvae develop in the frontal sinuses. The common species which infests cattle (Hypoderma bovis) deposits its eggs upon or in the skin where the larvae or bots live and...
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Gad'fly` noun ;
plural Gadflies . [
Gad +
fly .]
(Zoology) Any dipterous insect of the genus
Oestrus , and allied genera of botflies. » The sheep
gadfly (
Oestrus ovis ) deposits its young in the nostrils of sheep, and the larvæ develop ...
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Type: Term Pronunciation: gad′flī See: Tabanus
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Gadfly is a name commonly applied to various insects, a large number of which belong to the great Linnaean genus OEstrus, while others belong to the genus Tabanus. OEstrus bovis or ox gadfly (the Hypoderma bovis of some naturalists) is about 7 lines in length with a yellow thorax, with a black band; white abdomen; fulvous terminal segments and dusk...
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[
n] - any of various large flies that annoy livestock
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NATO designation for soviet surface-to-air missile system Buk-M1 [SU]
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noun any of various large flies that annoy livestock
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a persistently annoying person
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[Intelligent words] a persistently annoying person
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