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ลองค้นหาคำในรูปแบบอื่น ๆ เพื่อให้ได้ผลลัพธ์มากขึ้นหรือน้อยลง: -flyblow-, *flyblow*
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Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary (pronunciation guide only)
flyblown

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53
Flyblow

v. t. To deposit eggs upon, as a flesh fly does on meat; to cause to be maggoty; hence, to taint or contaminate, as if with flyblows. Bp. Srillingfleet. [ 1913 Webster ]

Flyblow

n. (Zool.) One of the eggs or young larvæ deposited by a flesh fly, or blowfly. [ 1913 Webster ]

Flyblown

a. Tainted or contaminated with flyblows; damaged; foul. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wherever flyblown reputations were assembled. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

WordNet (3.0)
flyblown(adj) spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies, Syn. maggoty, Example: flyblown meat; a sack of maggoty apricots
flyblown(adj) foul and run-down and repulsive, Syn. sordid, squalid, Example: a flyblown bar on the edge of town; a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town; squalid living conditions; sordid shantytowns
flyblown(adj) especially of reputation, Example: a flyblown reputation

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