How to pronounce“gadfly”in English
reported on a story where you had the senior people in the bank ordering uh the spying on a uh on a shareholder who was there was
a gadfly shareholder who was making trouble and they hired a security firm to go and spy on him uh at his vacation home
in in spain and they even rented the house i mean these are extraordinary measures that they've gone to over the years and there's just one
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Definitions of “gadfly”
Any dipterous (“two-winged”) insect or fly of the family Oestridae (commonly known as a botfly) or Tabanidae (horsefly), noted for irritating animals by buzzing about them, and biting them to suck their blood; a gadbee.
“He that made that ryme in jeſt, little conſidered what a gad-fly may doe in earneſt. It is ſmall wiſedome to contemne the ſmalleſt enemy; the gad-fly is a little creature, but ſome little creatures be ſtingers; […]”
A person or thing that irritates or instigates.
“VVhat gad flye tickles ſo this Macrinus, / That vp-flinging thy tayle, he breakes thus from me.”
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