gadflies
Meaning of gadflies
plural noun
a fly that bites livestock, especially a horsefly, warble fly, or botfly.
late 16th century: from gad, or obsolete gad ‘goad, spike’, from Old Norse gaddr, of Germanic origin; related to yard1.
Information about gadflies
- It is a name.
- The singular form of gadflies is: gadfly.
- Languages in which gadflies is used:
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Hyphenation of gadflies
gad-flies
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- gadflies is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Anagrams of gadflies
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