| 单词 | gadfly |
| 释义 | gadfly (once / 9991 pages) 1n 2n A gadfly is an irritating person, a nuisance who will often ask too many questions or lob lots of criticisms in order to get his or her way. Gadfly can also refer to an actual fly. The next time you see a cow swatting at the air with her tail, look closer because she might actually be shooing away an annoying gadfly. This is any kind of fly that likes to pester, and even bite, livestock. The prefix gad is an old word for “spike” or “pointed stick” which can be thought of, in this case, as similar to a stinger. So if your office mate is continuously buzzing around your desk with stinging comments, call him a gadfly and try to shoo him back to his own desk. WORD FAMILYgadfly: gadflies USAGE EXAMPLESClay Tiffany, a local gadfly, accused Mr. Tartaglione of beating him, according to The Journal News. New York Times(Dec 20, 2016) Though sometimes seen as a maverick or gadfly, Rakoff is a meticulous, conscientious judge, with an extensive background in the jurisprudence of fraud. The New Yorker(Dec 12, 2016) Since then he has continued to act as a gadfly, educating others and encouraging them to run, among them Ms Wu. Economist(Nov 10, 2016) 1 n any of various large flies that annoy livestock 2Hypo|Hyper botfly stout-bodied hairy dipterous fly whose larvae are parasites on humans and other mammals warble flyhairy bee-like fly whose larvae produce lumpy abscesses (warbles) under the skin of cattle cleg, clegg, horse fly, horseflylarge swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals Gasterophilus intestinalis, horse botflyparasitic chiefly on horses Dermatobia hominis, human botflylarge tropical American fly; parasitic on humans and other mammals Oestrus ovis, sheep botfly, sheep gadflylarvae are parasitic on sheep fly two-winged insects characterized by active flight n a persistently annoying person Syn|Hypo|Hyper blighter, cuss, pest, pesterer nudnick, nudnik (Yiddish) someone who is a boring pest persecutor, tormenter, tormentor someone who torments |
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