noun
- The eggs or larvae of a blowfly, especially those deposited on meat or other organic matter.
- Contamination or corruption; something that spoils or taints.
Usage: figurative
verb
- To lay eggs on (meat or other organic matter), as a blowfly does; to contaminate or taint.
Examples
- The butcher had to discard the meat after discovering flyblows on its surface.
- Uncovered food left in the summer heat will quickly attract flyblows.
- The scandal was a flyblow on the politician's otherwise spotless record.
- If you don't refrigerate the fish, blowflies will flyblow it within hours.
- The old fruit was covered with flyblows and had to be thrown away.
- Corruption and greed are flyblows on the institution's reputation.