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Flyblown   Listen
verb
Flyblow  v. t.  (past flyblew; past part. flyblown; pres. part. flyblowing)  To deposit eggs upon, as a flesh fly does on meat; to cause to be maggoty; hence, to taint or contaminate, as if with flyblows.



adjective
Flyblown  adj.  Tainted or contaminated with flyblows; damaged; foul. " Wherever flyblown reputations were assembled."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Flyblown" Quotes from Famous Books



... reechy[obs3]; fetid &c. 401. [of rotting living matter] decayed, moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid[obs3], rancid, weak, bad, gone bad, etercoral[obs3], lentiginous[obs3], touched, fusty, effete, reasty[obs3], rotten, corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty; putrid, putrefactive, putrescent, putrefied; saprogenic, saprogenous[obs3]; purulent, carious, peccant; fecal, feculent; stercoraceous[obs3], excrementitious[obs3]; scurfy, scurvy, impetiginous[obs3]; gory, bloody; rotting &c. v.; rotten as ...
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