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Definitions: Gadfly |
GadflyNoun1. A persistently annoying person. 2. Any of various large flies that annoy livestock. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "gadfly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
GADFLY | English | Genome Annotation Database of Drosophila | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: GadflySynonyms: blighter (n), cuss (n), pest (n), pesterer (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Gadfly |
| English words defined with "gadfly": Breeze fly, Burrel fly ♦ Gadbee, Gadflies, Gadfly petrel ♦ Oestrian, Oxfly ♦ sheep gadfly ♦ Wormil. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "gadfly": Russian gadfly. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "gadfly": Asilus ♦ OEstrus ♦ WASP. (references) |
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| "Gadfly" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Gadfly" is used about 35 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 35 | 58,339 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "gadfly": Gadfly petrel ♦ Russian gadfly ♦ sheep gadfly. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
gadfly | 30 |
gadfly record | 5 |
gadfly lpg | 5 |
gadfly review | 3 |
gadfly lyrics | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "gadfly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zekth (bot-fly, cleg, horsefly), njeri i bezdisur (nuisance). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | щръклица (breeze, warble), досадник (bore, perisher). (various references) | |
Czech | velká moucha. (various references) | |
Danish | bremse (brake, cleg, clegg, gad-fly, horsefly, horse-fly, sprag, to snub). (various references) | |
Dutch | daas (cleg, clegg, gad-fly, horsefly, horse-fly), brems (cleg, clegg, gad-fly, horsefly, horse-fly), paardehorzel (bot fly, gad-fly, giant hornet, grint hornet, hornet, horse bot fly, horse botfly, horsefly, horse-fly, stomach botfly). (various references) | |
Esperanto | tabano (gad-fly, horsefly, horse-fly). (various references) | |
Farsi | مزاحم (Bothersome, Intruder, Knocker, Leech, Tiresome, Troublemaker, Troublous), خرمگس (Horsefly, Maggot), ادم مردم ازار. (various references) | |
Finnish | paarma (cleg, clegg, horsefly). (various references) | |
French | taon (gad-fly). (various references) | |
German | bremse (brake, brakes, cleg, clegg, horsefly, horse-fly, retardant), viehbremse (cleg, clegg, horsefly). (various references) | |
Greek | αλογόμυγα (botfly, cleg, clegg, horsefly). (various references) | |
Hebrew | זבוב "בקר. (various references) | |
Hungarian | bögöly (bot-fly, cleg, gad-fly, horsefly, horse-fly, oestrum). (various references) | |
Indonesian | perongrong (one who undermines or pesters), penggoda (perverter), pengganggu (disturber, intruder, molester). (various references) | |
Italian | tafano, persona assillante, tafano (cleg, clegg, gad-fly, horsefly). (various references) | |
Manx | croagan (bloodsucker creditor; pork crackling, bloodsucker; pork crackling, horsefly). (various references) | |
Norwegian | klegg (horsefly), brems. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | adflygay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tavão (cleg, clegg, gad-fly, horsefly, horsehair), tabão (cleg, clegg, horsefly), moscardo (breeze, cleg, clegg, gad-fly, hornet, horsefly), mosca do cavalo (cleg, clegg, horsefly). (various references) | |
Romanian | tãun (breeze, horse-fly), streche, persoanã sâcâitoare (nagger), impuls (drive, fillip, impetus, impulse, impulsion, momentum, motion, spur, stimulus, swing, urge). (various references) | |
Russian | овод (bot-fly, cleg, gad-fly, oestrum, oestrus). (various references) | |
Scottish | gleithir (a gadfly). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zajedljivac (sarcastic person), obad (cleg, oestrus). (various references) | |
Spanish | tabano (cleg, clegg, horsefly, hypoderma, warble fly). (various references) | |
Swedish | broms (brake, braking, check, cleg, clegg, horsefly, horse-fly). (various references) | |
Thai | ผู้ก่อความรำคาญให้ผู้อื่น, ตัวเหลือบ. (various references) | |
Turkish | yapışkan tip (barnacle, nudnik, old man of the sea, sticker), atsineği (forestfly, stablefly), ısrarcı kimse. (various references) | |
Welsh | robin y gyrrwr. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | oistros. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | asilus, Chrysos spp., Haematopola spp., musca, muscae, muscarum, muscas, muscis, oestrus, Tabanus spp.. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Gadfly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gadali, gadfli, gadfy, gadly, gaffly, gafly, Gaidhlig, Gateley, Gately, Gedali, godfly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "gadfly" (pronounced ga"dflī') |
| 3 | -f l ī' | botfly, butterfly, firefly, shoofly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-f-g-l-y" | |
-1 letter: glady. | |
-2 letters: agly, flag, flay, glad, lady, yald. | |
-3 letters: dag, dal, day, fad, fag, fay, fly, gad, gal, gay, lad, lag, lay. | |
-4 letters: ad, ag, al, ay, fa, la, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-f-g-l-y" | |
+3 letters: dragonfly. | |
+4 letters: ladyfinger, unfadingly. | |
+5 letters: deafeningly, ladyfingers, lapidifying, regardfully. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 61 64 66 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .- -.. ..-. .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100001 01100100 01100110 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G a d f l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0061 0064 0066 006C 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)416770727891 |
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