gadfly
- IPA[ˈɡadflʌɪ]
英式
- 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
noun: gadfly, plural noun: gadflies
- 釋義
名詞
- 1. 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 always a gadfly, he attacked intellectual orthodoxies
- 更多解釋
- IPA[ˈɡadˌflī]
美式
- a fly that bites livestock, especially a horsefly, warble fly, or botfly.
Oxford American Dictionary