flyspeck
Housefly excrement, visible as a minuscule black dotHousefly excrement, visible as a minuscule black dot.
Meaning
2 sensesHousefly excrement, visible as a minuscule black dot.
The wall of the kitchen above the fruitbowl was dotted with flyspeck.
Fliegendreck, Fliegenscheiße
(broadly)Anything tiny or insignificant.
From the foothills below, Jean, Jan, and James were mere flyspecks, easily lost among the straggly pines that formed the treeline.
We passed through some flyspeck town, barely more than a gas station and a stoplight, but I never saw the name.
Fliegendreck, Fliegenscheiße
- a tiny dark speck made by the excrement of a fly
Translations
2 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
From fly + speck.From fly + speck.
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Forms
plural: flyspecks / flyspeckSynonyms
104 synonymsWord family
1 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Plural nouns — Because its plural is irregular
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.