The bee makes honey, which the drone devours. The wasp and the hornet molest with a sting: and especially cattle, so do the gadfly (breeze), the fly and the gnat.
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Gadfly
/ˈɡædflaɪ/
Synonyms for "gadfly" (51 found)
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6 entriesacademic gadflydissenting gadflypersistent gadflypolitical gadflyprovocative gadflypublic gadfly
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7 translations across 5 languages.
Finnish
1 entries- piikittelijä noun (person or thing that irritates or instigates)
French
1 entries- casse-pieds noun (person or thing that irritates or instigates)
German
3 entries- Querulant noun (person or thing that irritates or instigates)
- Quälgeist noun (person or thing that irritates or instigates)
- Störenfried noun (person or thing that irritates or instigates)
Spanish
1 entries- moscón noun (person or thing that irritates or instigates)
Turkish
1 entries- baş belası noun (person or thing that irritates or instigates)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
What could be more normal for an ox stung by a gadfly to run away; but why did the donkey follow him?
Source: tatoeba (10055954)
He that made that ryme in jeſt, little conſidered what a gad-fly may doe in earneſt. It is ſmall wiſedome to contemne the ſmalleſt enemy; the gad-fly is a little creature, but ſome little creatures be ſtingers; […]
Source: wiktionary
Light fly his ſlumbers, if perchance a flight / Of angry gad-flies faſten on the herd; […]
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