| NOUN | person | gadfly, pest, blighter, cuss, pesterer | a persistently annoying person |
|---|---|---|---|
| animal | gadfly | any of various large flies that annoy livestock |
| Sounds | gae'dflay. | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | alkali ... walleye: 28 rhymes with lay... | |
| Meaning | A persistently annoying person. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonyms | pest, blighter, cuss, pesterer | |
| Narrower | nudnik, nudnick | (Yiddish) someone who is a boring pest |
| Broader | tormentor, tormenter, persecutor | someone who torments |
| Spanish | lapa, machacón, moscardón, moscón, pelma, pesada, pesado, peste, plaga, quiltro | |
| Catalan | borinot, corcó, pesta, plaga | |
| Meaning | Any of various large flies that annoy livestock. | |
|---|---|---|
| Narrower | botfly | stout-bodied hairy dipterous fly whose larvae are parasites on humans and other mammals |
| horsefly, cleg, clegg, horse fly | large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals | |
| warble fly | hairy bee-like fly whose larvae produce lumpy abscesses (warbles) under the skin of cattle | |
| Broader | fly | two-winged insects characterized by active flight |
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