English-Thai Dictionary
gadfly
N ตัว เหลือบ แมลง ดูด เลือด สัตว์ irritant tua-liab
gadfly
N ผู้ ก่อ ความรำคาญ ให้ ผู้อื่น คน ก่อกวน irritant pacify phu-kor-kwam-ram-kan-hai-phu-uen
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
GADFLY
n.An insect of the genus Oestrus, which stings cattle, and deposits its eggs in their skin; called also the breeze.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
GADFLY
Gad "fly `, n.; pl. Gadflies. Etym: [Gad + fly. ] (Zoöl.)
Defn: Any dipterous insect of the genus Oestrus, and allied genera of botflies.
Note: The sheep gadfly (Oestrus ovis ) deposits its young in the nostrils of sheep, and the larvæ develop in the frontal sinuses. The common species which infests cattle (Hypoderma bovis ) deposits its eggs upon or in the skin where the larvæ or bots live and produce sores called wormels. The gadflies of the horse produce the intestinal parasites called bots. See Botfly, and Bots. The true horseflies are often erroneously called gadflies, and the true gadflies are sometimes incorrectly called breeze flies. Gadfly petrel (Zoöl.), one of several small petrels of the genus Oestrelata.
New American Oxford Dictionary
gadfly
gad fly |ˈgadˌflī ˈɡædˌflaɪ | ▶noun ( pl. gadflies ) a fly that bites livestock, esp. a horsefly, warble fly, or botfly. • an annoying person, esp. one who provokes others into action by criticism. ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from gad, or obsolete gad ‘goad, spike, ’ from Old Norse gaddr, of Germanic origin; related to yard 1 .
Oxford Dictionary
gadfly
gad ¦fly |ˈgadflʌɪ | ▶noun ( pl. gadflies ) a fly that bites livestock, especially a horsefly, warble fly, or botfly. • a person who annoys or criticizes others in order to provoke them into action. ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from gad 1, or obsolete gad ‘goad, spike ’, from Old Norse gaddr, of Germanic origin; related to yard 1 .
Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary
gadfly
g á d fl ỳ 名詞 複 -flies C 1 (権力者などに )うるさく言う人 .2 〘虫 〙家畜を刺すハエ (類 ), ウシバエ .
The Wordsmith Dictionary