Flyblow

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This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The egg or larva of a blowfly, usually deposited on meat.
  • v. To deposit flyblows on.
  • v. To contaminate; taint.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The larva of the blowfly, especially when found on rotten meat.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. 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.
  • n. One of the eggs or young larvæ deposited by a flesh fly, or blowfly.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To make flyblown; taint with or as if with flyblows: chiefly in figurative uses.
  • To deposit eggs on meat or the like, as a fly.
  • n. The egg of a fly, the presence of which in numbers on meat, etc., makes it tainted and maggoty.
  • Of the nature of flyblow; flyblown.
  • Word Usage
    "If you didn't have good schools for that man's children and his team's children, you knew he would flyblow South Carolina and industry would never come."
    Verb Form
    flyblew    flyblowing    flyblows