Definitions
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- noun Alternative term for a
blowfly .
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Examples
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The boys may find greater delight in buzzing bottlefly than in cube root; but the schoolmaster hammers, hammers, hammers, until he has painfully hammered cube root into their heads.
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The boys may find greater delight in buzzing bottlefly than in cube root; but the schoolmaster hammers, hammers, hammers, until he has painfully hammered cube root into their heads.
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Speaker to Animals "(a bit off, there, given Obama could never pass as even a bottlefly on a Kzin, but the 'junior diplomat' bit fits perfectly.)
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