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Housefly   Listen
noun
housefly  n.  
1.
Common fly (Musca domestica) that frequents human habitations and spreads many diseases.
Synonyms: Musca domestica.





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"Housefly" Quotes from Famous Books



... you think so: a housefly might be of a different opinion. But permit me, at least, to doubt whether such an investigator would be better employed in reference to his own happiness, though I grant that he would be so in reference to your intellectual amusement and social interests. Poor ...
— What Will He Do With It, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... fortunate ancestors didn't know about them. They were befogged in ignorance. As recently as the generation immediately preceding ours people were unacquainted with the simplest rules of hygiene. They didn't care whether the housefly wiped his feet before he came into the house or not. The gentleman with the drooping, cream-separator mustache was at perfect liberty to use the common drinking cup on the railroad train. The appendix lurked ...
— "Speaking of Operations--" • Irvin S. Cobb


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