Definitions for horse-fly

horse-fly horse fly

Horse-Fly is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 248 anagrams from letters in horse-fly (-efhlorsy).

Definitions for horse-fly

noun

  1. any bloodsucking, usually large fly of the family Tabanidae, especially of the genus Tabanus, a serious pest of horses, cattle, etc.

Origin of horse-fly

1350-1400; Middle English horsfleeye

Examples for horse-fly

We found it to be a horse fly, quite dead, but showing no marks of violence.

In a preceding chapter Schwatka reports that one of his party, bitten by a horse fly, was completely disabled for a week.

We have already noticed the most perfect condition of these parts as seen in the horse fly.

When I had fairly passed the camp I came down to the road again, and I let my horse fly!

That tent of ours has stuck out on the landscape like a horse fly on a pillow sham.

Bess merely looked around and seemed to think a horse fly had stung her.

The horse fly is larger than the insect of the same name in the United States.

The head of the horse fly appears to be all eyes, and it is no wonder that we can so seldom take it by surprise.

Word Value for horse-fly
Scrable

8

Words with friends

7

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