Crossword-Solution: HORSEFLY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Horsefly | n. | Any dipterous fly of the family Tabanidae, that stings horses, and sucks their blood. |
| Horsefly | n. | The horse tick or forest fly (Hippobosca). |
We have 10 clues for the answer “HORSEFLY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A freak of the animal kingdom! | 1 answer |
| Equestrian of sorts | 1 answer |
| Equine pest | 1 answer |
| Nag biter | 1 answer |
| Pony pest | 1 answer |
| Bloodsucking pest | 2 answers |
| Animal twofer? | 6 answers |
| Winged insect. | 7 answers |
| BITING insect | 16 answers |
| Gadfly | 25 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with HORSEFLY (5)
The common horsefly, which is so troublesome in the shady lanes of England, belongs to this same genus.
They stopped at the end of the field and carefully removed teddy from his place of prestige, but just at that moment a horsefly buzzing about caused Prince to stamp impatiently, and the big hoof came down on the boy’s foot.
Beaming the roads of this picturesque region in search of victims is a most persistent and pugnacious species of fly; rollicking as the blue- bottle, and the veritable double of the green-head horsefly of the Western prairies, he combines the dash and impetuosity of the one with the ferocity and persistency of the other; but he is happily possessed of one redeeming feature not possessed by either of the above-mentioned and well-known insects of the Western world.
For the last few days, the weather had been tolerably cool, and we had not been much troubled with musquitoes; instead, however, we were persecuted severely by a very large greyish kind of horsefly, with a huge proboscis for sucking up the blood.
She's got the nerve of a horsefly! The chunky one in the middle, his name's Sokai, but I call him Soaker for short.
Quotes with HORSEFLY (2)
A professionally trained actress should be a better liar, wouldn't you think? But no. I am pathetically underachieved in that area. I can think of a great lie. I'm plenty imaginative. But before the words are even out of my mouth, there's a weird tickle of unease in my armpits, a horsefly of guilt lands on the back of my neck, and before I can stop myself, that gassy little bubble of truth belches out.
CHORONZON: I am a dire wolf, prey-stalking, lethal prowler. MORPHEUS: I am a hunter, horse-mounted, wolf-stabbing. CHORONZON: I am a horsefly, horse-stinging, hunter-throwing. MORPHEUS: I am a spider, fly-consuming, eight legged. CHORONZON: I am a snake, spider-devouring, posion-toothed. MORPHEUS: I am an ox, snake-crushing, heavy-footed. CHORONZON: I am an anthrax, butcher bacterium, warm-life destroying. MORPHEUS: I am a world, space-floating, life-nurturing. CHORONZON: I a…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1970–2008).