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Gadfly   /gˈædflˌaɪ/   Listen
Gadfly

noun
(pl. gadflies)
1.
A persistently annoying person.  Synonyms: blighter, cuss, pest, pesterer.
2.
Any of various large flies that annoy livestock.



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"Gadfly" Quotes from Famous Books



... two days had elapsed since the judges, amid the loud acclaim of the Athenian people, had pronounced the death sentence against the philosopher Socrates because he had sought to destroy faith in the gods. What the gadfly is to the horse Socrates was to Athens. The gadfly stings the horse in order to prevent it from dozing off and to keep it moving briskly on its course. The philosopher said ...
— Best Russian Short Stories • Various

... Claver, clover. Clavers, gossip, nonsense. Claw, a scratch, a blow. Claw, to scratch, to strike. Clay-cauld, clay-cold. Claymore, a two-handed Highland sword. Cleckin, a brood. Cleed, to clothe. Cleek, to snatch. Cleekit, linked arms. Cleg, gadfly. Clink, a sharp stroke; jingle. Clink, money, coin. Clink, to chink. Clink, to rhyme. Clinkin, with a smart motion. Clinkum, clinkumbell, the beadle, the bellman. Clips, shears. Clish-ma-claver, gossip, ...
— Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns • Robert Burns

... was said in the newspapers that they did not speak to each other. But every word from Mr. Slide's pen settled on his own memory, and added to his torments. It came to be a fixed idea in the Duke's mind that Mr. Slide was a gadfly sent to the earth for the express ...
— The Prime Minister • Anthony Trollope

... by a gadfly of conscience that buzzed in her ears the counsel to tell the police. Sometimes on her way to a tryst with Easton a spirit in her feet led her toward a police station, but another spirit carried her past, for she would visualize the sure consequences of such an exposure. If her suspicions ...
— The Cup of Fury - A Novel of Cities and Shipyards • Rupert Hughes



Words linked to "Gadfly" :   nudnik, nudnick, persecutor, botfly, tormenter, fly, horsefly, tormentor, cuss, sheep gadfly, warble fly, pest, cleg, horse fly, clegg



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