adj
Meaning 1
contaminated with flyblows
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
flyblown
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UK: /ˈflaɪˌbləʊn/
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US: /ˈflaɪˌbloʊn/
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adj
Meaning 2
tainted
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
sordid, squalid
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adjective satellite
Meaning 4
especially of reputation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a flyblown reputation
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 5
foul and run-down and repulsive
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a flyblown bar on the edge of town
- a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town
- squalid living conditions
- sordid shantytowns
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: squalid, sordid
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 6
spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- flyblown meat
- a sack of maggoty apricots
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: maggoty
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
21 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- German: madig — contaminated with flyblows
- Māori: keto — contaminated with flyblows
- Polish: robaczywy — contaminated with flyblows
- Portuguese: bichado — contaminated with flyblows
- Russian: заси́женный му́хами (zasížennyj múxami) — contaminated with flyblows
- French: corrompu — tainted
- French: contaminé — tainted
- French: pollué — tainted
- German: unrein — tainted
- German: verdorben — tainted
- Polish: ubrudzony — tainted
- Russian: гря́зный (grjáznyj) — tainted
- Russian: испо́рченный (ispórčennyj) — tainted
- Spanish: corrompido — tainted
- Spanish: mancillado — tainted
- Spanish: contaminado — tainted
- French: putride — sordid, squalid
- Polish: niechlujny — sordid, squalid
- Polish: obskurny — sordid, squalid
- Russian: гря́зный (grjáznyj) — sordid, squalid
- Spanish: pútrido — sordid, squalid