flyblown

• fly-blown

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈflaɪˌbləʊn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈflaɪˌbloʊn/

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flyblown (comparative more flyblown, superlative most flyblown)

1. contaminated with flyblows
   • 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vii]:

     Him that thou magnifiest with all these titles
     Stinking and fly-blown lies here at our feet.

2. tainted
3. sordid, squalid

• blowfly
• flyblow