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Gadfly - Wikipedia
Gadfly most commonly refers to: Horse fly or botfly · Gadfly (philosophy and social science), a person who upsets the status quo. Gadfly may also refer to: ...
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GADFLY Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
1. Any of various flies (such as a horsefly, botfly, or warble fly) that bite or annoy livestock. 2. A person who stimulates or annoys other people especially ...
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Gadfly (philosophy and social science) - Wikipedia
A gadfly is a person who interferes with the status quo of a society or community by posing novel, potentially upsetting questions, usually directed at ...
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gad-fly
ˈgad-ˌfly [f. gad n.1] 1. The popular name of a fly which bites and goads cattle, esp. a fly of the genus Tabanus or of the genus Œstrus; a bot-fly, breeze.1626 T. H. Caussin's Holy Crt. 120 It was like..as a bull stung with a Gad-fly. 1727–46 Thomson Summer 499 Light fly his slumbers, if perchance ...
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Gadfly - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms - Vocabulary.com
A gadfly is an irritating person, a nuisance who will often ask too many questions or lob lots of criticisms in order to get his or her way.
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gadfly - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Noun · A person or thing that irritates or instigates. · Synonym of gadabout (“a person who restlessly moves from place to place, seeking amusement or the ...
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gad-bee
ˈgad-ˌbee [f. gad n.1] = gad-fly 1.1530 Palsgr. 223/2 Gadde be a flye, bourdon. 1601 Holland Pliny I. 318 The bigger kind of bees..and this vermin is called Oestrus (i. the gad-bee or horse flie). 1639 Horn & Rob. Gate Lang. Unl. xix. §221 Cattell stricken with a gad-bee, skip up and down, and run a...
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GADFLY Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com
any of various flies, fly, as a stable fly or warble fly, that bite or annoy domestic animals. a person who persistently annoys or provokes others ...
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Gadfly Definition - Describing People - YouTube
Gadfly Meaning - Gadfly Examples - Gadfly Definition - Describing People - Gadfly What does gadfly mean? What is a gadfly?
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GADFLY definition in American English - Collins Dictionary
1. any of several large flies, as the horsefly, that bite livestock 2. a person who annoys others, esp. by rousing them from complacency.
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GADFLY | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
GADFLY meaning: 1. someone who is always annoying or criticizing other people: 2. a fly that bites horses and cows…. Learn more.
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Topical Bible: Gadfly
A gadfly is an insect known for its irritating bites and relentless pursuit of its targets, often livestock.
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Henry Gullett
Jack Lang remembered him as "the gad-fly who harassed the Scullin Government incessantly".
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gad-breeze
† gad-breeze Obs. rare—1. [f. gad n.1 + breeze n.1] = gad-fly 1.1703 Country Farm. Catech., I can liken him to nothing but my bald heffer when she's got the gad-breeze in her tail.
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Mirza Jahangir Khan
His satirical political column, named Charand o Parand (Balderdash and Piffle) and signed by such imaginary figures as Dakhoo, Dakhoo-Ali, Khar-Magas (Gad-fly
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