ALL meanings of gadfly
gad·fly
G g - noun gadfly irritant, troublemaker 1
- noun gadfly biting insect 1
- noun plural gadfly any of various flies, as a stable fly or warble fly, that bite or annoy domestic animals. 1
- noun plural gadfly a person who persistently annoys or provokes others with criticism, schemes, ideas, demands, requests, etc. 1
- noun gadfly A fly that bites livestock, esp. a horsefly, warble fly, or botfly. 1
- countable noun gadfly If you refer to someone as a gadfly, you believe that they deliberately annoy or challenge other people, especially people in authority. 0
- noun gadfly any of various large dipterous flies, esp the horsefly, that annoy livestock by sucking their blood 0
- noun gadfly a constantly irritating or harassing person 0
- noun gadfly Any dipterous insect of the family Oestridae, commonly known as botflies. 0
- noun gadfly any of several large flies, as the horsefly, that bite livestock 0
- noun gadfly A horsefly: any of various species of fly, of the family Tabanidae, noted for buzzing about animals and sucking their blood. 0
- noun gadfly a person who annoys others, esp. by rousing them from complacency 0
- noun gadfly One who upsets the status quo by posing upsetting or novel questions, or attempts to stimulate innovation by proving an irritant. 0
- noun gadfly (pejorative) One who merely irritates without making useful suggestions. 0
- noun gadfly (Slang) A bloodsucker. 0