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Definition: Blowfly |
BlowflyNoun1. Large usually hairy metallic blue or green fly; lays eggs in carrion or dung or wounds. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "blowfly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references) |
Synonym: BlowflySynonym: blow fly (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Blowfly |
| English words defined with "blowfly": bluebottle ♦ Calliphora vicina ♦ flesh fly, Flyblow ♦ greenbottle, greenbottle fly ♦ maggot. (references) |
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| "Blowfly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Blowfly" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
blowfly | 24 |
blowfly lyrics | 2 |
blowfly loco | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "blowfly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | mizë mishi (meat fly). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | муха месарка (bluebottle). (various references) | |
Dutch | bromvlieg (bluebottle blowfly), blauwe vleesvlieg (bluebottle blowfly). (various references) | |
French | mouche bleue de la viande (blow fly, bluebottle, bluebottle blowfly). (various references) | |
German | schmeißfliege (bluebottle). (various references) | |
Greek | μύγα μπλέ του κρέατος (blow fly, bluebottle, bluebottle blowfly). (various references) | |
Italian | moscone della carne. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | さお竹 (bamboo pole, blowfly maggots used as fishing bait, crisp, crunchy, decoy, to makedo, to split finely). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | さし (blowfly maggots used as fishing bait). (various references) | |
Manx | carchuillag ghorrym (bluebottle), carchuillag foalley. (various references) | |
Norwegian | spyflue. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | owflyblay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | mosca varejeira (bluebottle, horsefly, meat-fly), mosca de carne. (various references) | |
Romanian | musculiţã (Midge). (various references) | |
Russian | мясная муха (flesh fly, flesh-fly, meat fly, meat-fly). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vrsta muve (bot-fly). (various references) | |
Spanish | moscarda. (various references) | |
Swedish | spyfluga (bluebottle). (various references) | |
Turkish | kurtsineği. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | ruồi xanh, nhặng (flesh-fly). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Calliphora erythrocephala. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Blowfly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bluefly, bowly, brownly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: flyblow. | |
| Words within the letters "b-f-l-l-o-w-y" | |
-2 letters: blowy, folly, lowly. | |
-3 letters: blow, boll, bowl, flow, fowl, wolf, yowl. | |
-4 letters: bow, boy, fly, fob, foy, lob, low, owl, yob, yow. | |
-5 letters: bo, by, lo, of, ow, oy, wo, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-f-l-l-o-w-y" | |
+1 letter: flyblown, flyblows. | |
+3 letters: flyblowing. | |
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