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dog-fly
1. An English rendering of Gr. κυνάµυια; which writers have tried to identify with British flies troublesome to dogs: see quots.
14..Metr. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 625 Dogflye, ciniphex. 1552Huloet, Dogge flye, cynomyia. 1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God 753 Origen compareth the dogge-flye vnto thir sect. 1631R. Byfield Doctr. Sabb. 1 Such as are these Dog-flies, such are unquiet men. 1658Rowland Moufet's Theat. Ins. 934 κυνοµυῖα, Musca canum, in English a Dog-fly..Isidore, and Euthymius, and Philo, suppose it to be a Wood-fly, very irksome to the ears of Dogs. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Dog-Fly, Cynomyia..a species of fly common in woods and among bushes, and particularly troublesome to dogs..It somewhat resembles the flat black fly so troublesome to cattle.
2. As a term of abuse [tr. Gr. κυνάµυια].
c1611Chapman Iliad xxi. 366 [Mars to Minerva] Thou dog-fly, what's the cause Thou mak'st Gods fight thus? |