Talk:gadfly

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gadfly

Definition of horsefly appears to be a duplicate of previous. DAVilla 04:53, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Merge.—msh210℠ 22:56, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Merged. —Ruakh_TALK 22:42, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Tea room convo

• Wiktionary:Tea_room/2016/November#gadfly

--Barytonesis (talk) 22:33, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

Figurative sense origin

Any chance the figurative sense (“one who upsets the status quo”) comes from Socrates' self-identification as such in the Apology? Or is it more likely that it was independently formed in English? Andrew Sheedy (talk) 02:41, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

@Andrew Sheedy: seems plausible. I updated the etymology. — Sgconlaw (talk) 19:25, 18 June 2022 (UTC)