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dorflies

dorflies is the plural of dorfly.

Meaning of dorfly

Noun

dorfly (plural dorflies)

  1. A biting insect, such as a horse-fly or gad-fly, that attacks livestock.
    • This forest was most horribly fertile and copious in dorflies, hornets, and wasps, so that it was a purgatory for the poor mares, asses, and horses.1849, Henry George Bohn, Bohn's Extra Volume: Volume 6, page 152

Questions about dorflies

What is dorflies the plural of?
Dorflies is the plural of dorfly.

Words near dorflies in the dictionary

  1. dorf
  2. Dorff
  3. Dorffs
  4. DORFic
  5. dorfin
  6. dorflies
  7. dorfly
  8. Dorfman
  9. dorfmanite
  10. Dorfmans
  11. dorfs

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