gadfly

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Определение gadfly в Английский Язык Турецкий язык словарь: {i} atsineği; at sineği; i atsineği; {i} yapışkan tip; [n] at sineği; yapışkan huylu kimse; atsinek; zoo/ Tabanus bovinus; {i} ısrarcı kimse; büve; büvelek

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Определение gadfly в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь: One who upsets the status quo by posing upsetting or novel questions, or attempts to stimulate innovation by proving an irritant; A horsefly: any of various species of fly, of the family Tabanid, noted for buzzing about animals and sucking their blood; A bloodsucker
He's a regular gadfly and takes advantage of his friend's generosity.; Any dipterous insect of the genus Oestrus, and allied group of botflies; {n} a fly that stings cattle, the breeze-flye; If you refer to someone as a gadfly, you believe that they deliberately annoy or challenge other people, especially people in authority; a persistently annoying person; One who upsets the status quo by posing upsetting or novel questions, or attempt to stimulate innovation by proving an irritant; any of various large flies that annoy livestock; A horsefly; A fly of various species, of the family Tabanid[ae], noted for buzzing about animals and sucking their blood; Any dipterous insect of the genus Oestrus, and allied genera of botflies; {i} bloodsucking fly; (Informal) person who annoys everyone around him (with questions, ideas, plans, requests, etc.)
The gadfly: gadbee
gadflies: plural of gadfly

gadfly

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gad·fly

gädflay

/ˈgadˌflī/ /ˈɡædˌflaɪ/

[ 'gad-"flI ] (noun.) 1626. "fly which bites cattle", from Old Norse gaddr (“spike”).

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