Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fly whose larva produces warbles.
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Examples
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His stomach tightened at the thought and he looked instead at a poster on the wall urging him to prevent warble-fly.
Cal Laverty, Bernard Mac 1983
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[ "As the result of a conference called by the War Office it has been decided to wage a war of annihilation against the warble-fly.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 26, 1919 Various
bilby commented on the word warble-fly
"He had never known until then the modern appetite for words - printed words, regardless of their meaning. This was merely a County Council wrangle about the appointment of seven warble-fly inspectors, but by the time he was done with it he knew it by heart."
- Frank O'Connor, 'Song Without Words'.
September 6, 2008