'Flyblown' definitions:
Definition of 'flyblown'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies; "flyblown meat"; "a sack of maggoty apricots" [syn: flyblown, maggoty]
adjective
Foul and run-down and repulsive; "a flyblown bar on the edge of town"; "a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town"; "squalid living conditions"; "sordid shantytowns" [syn: flyblown, squalid, sordid]
adjective
Especially of reputation; "a flyblown reputation"
Definition of 'Flyblown'
From: GCIDE
- Flyblown \Fly"blown`\, a. Tainted or contaminated with flyblows; damaged; foul. [1913 Webster]
- Wherever flyblown reputations were assembled. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster]