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bull-fly
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
any one of several species of horsefly, especially Chrysops.
See: bulldog fly
Quotations
1924
Not much trade these wintry days and if customers come, they'll stick around like summer bull-flies.
1958
"Summers, there was . . . those big, furry mosquitoes, the black no-seeums, the bull flies."