Flyspeck

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  • noun. A small dark speck or stain made by the excrement of a fly.
  • noun. A minute or insignificant spot.
  • transitive verb. To mark or foul with flyspecks.
  • transitive verb. To examine closely or in minute detail; scrutinize.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. An excrementitious stain made by an insect, chiefly by the common house-fly.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To soil with flyspecks.
  • noun. A speck or stain made by the excrement of a fly; hence, any insignificant dot.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Housefly excrement, visible as a minuscule black dot.
  • noun. By extension of above, anything tiny or insignificant.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a tiny dark speck made by the excrement of a fly
  • adjective. very small
  • Word Usage
    "Name me one Democratic leader who says we can declare peace, pull down the Levalor blinds, and everything will be peachy -- Kerry doesn't talk that way, the voluble Biden doesn't (who said this weekend he didn't want to "flyspeck" the magnitude of Israel's military response), Hillary certainly doesn't."
    Equivalent
    little  small  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    atom  corpuscle  molecule  mote  particle  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    ace  atom  bespeckle  bespot  bit  
    verb-form