Flyspeck

Quick meaning: Flyspeck is a noun meaning Housefly excrement, visible as a minuscule black dot.

Meaning

Housefly excrement, visible as a minuscule black dot.

More Meanings

1. (by extension) Anything tiny or insignificant.
2. To bespeckle with tiny spatters of color.
3. To inspect in minute detail to ensure that something contains no flaws; nitpick.

Example Sentences

The wall of the kitchen above the fruitbowl was dotted with flyspeck.

We passed through some flyspeck town, barely more than a gas station and a stoplight, but I never saw the name.

From the foothills below, Jean, Jan, and James were mere flyspecks, easily lost among the straggly pines that formed the treeline.

To flyspeck, you need an old toothbrush, the paint color of your choice, glazing medium, a palette knife, and a mixing surface such as a palette or plastic container.

Word Forms

• flyspecks
• flyspecking
• flyspecked

Synonyms for flyspeck

Depending on context, synonyms include atom, whiff, ace, atomy, aught, bissel.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include stablefly, speckling, speckle, housefly, fishfly, dogfly.

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