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# gadfly

«gadfly» in Mova's school dictionary: **a large fly that bites cattle and horses** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (gadflies)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A gadfly is a large fly that bites cattle and horses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gadfly/#m1)

2) (informal) A gadfly is a person who keeps pestering and stirring others up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gadfly/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in old stories, an insect that stings a horse until it runs wild; in talk, a nagging person

### examples

- The gadfly stung the cow, and it ran off. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gadfly/#x1)
- A gadfly buzzed round the horse's head. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gadfly/#x2)
- My cousin is a gadfly who never stops teasing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gadfly/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [Egypt is a very fair heifer; but the gadfly out of the north is come, it is come.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1218/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «gadfly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gadfly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.