Usually means: Infested with maggots; spoiled, tainted.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. flyblown: Merriam-Webster
  2. flyblown: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. flyblown: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. flyblown: Collins English Dictionary
  5. flyblown: Vocabulary.com
  6. flyblown: Wordnik
  7. flyblown: Wiktionary
  8. flyblown: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. flyblown: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. flyblown: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. flyblown: Dictionary.com
  12. Flyblown: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. flyblown: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. flyblown: Rhymezone
  15. Flyblown: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. flyblown: FreeDictionary.org
  17. flyblown: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. flyblown: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. flyblown: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flyblown: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. flyblown: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. flyblown: Medical dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  contaminated with flyblows
adjective:  tainted
adjective:  sordid, squalid

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