flyblow

American  

[flahy-bloh] / ˈflaɪˌbloʊ /

verb (used with object)

flyblew, flyblown, flyblowing

1. to deposit eggs or larvae on (meat or other food).

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noun

1. one of the eggs or young larvae of a blowfly, deposited on meat or other food.

flyblow British  

/ ˈflaɪˌbləʊ /

verb

1. (tr) to contaminate, esp with the eggs or larvae of the blowfly; taint

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noun

1. (usually plural) the egg or young larva of a blowfly, deposited on meat, paper, etc

Etymology

Origin of flyblow

First recorded in 1550–60; fly ¹ + blow ²

Example Sentences

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flyblown

The Hotel Portales in Colima, the Salton Sea and the saloon bars of El Centro and Mazatlán: These were flyblown places that all remained internally fossilized.

From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2018

But right now, Cambodia is looking even less attractive than a crushingly monotonous life in a bunch of flyblown tents somewhere in the Pacific.

From Time ● May 5, 2015

So much flowed from that acrid, flyblown, and relatively brief campaign.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 25, 2015

Like Ms. Thurber’s Obie-winning, five-part “Hill Town Plays” cycle, “The Insurgents” is set in a flyblown, poverty-blighted corner of New England, a place that people get stuck in forever, even if they think they’ve escaped.

From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2015

They had front porches in identical states of disrepair, tin roofs warped and rusted to a similar dull red hue, and flyblown outhouses in each dirt backyard.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson