flyblow
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From fly + blow (as in “strike”). Compare fly strike and strikefly.
Noun
[edit]flyblow (plural flyblows)
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Verb
[edit]flyblow (third-person singular simple present flyblows, present participle flyblowing, simple past flyblew, past participle flyblown)
- (transitive) To deposit eggs upon, as a blowfly does on meat; to cause to be maggoty.
- (transitive, by extension) To taint or contaminate.
- 1676, Edward Stillingfleet, A Defence of the Discourse Concerning the Idolatry Practised in the Church of Rome:
- I am unwilling to believe that he designs to play tricks, and to flyblow my words, to make others distaste them.