bobfly

noun

Etymology

From bob + fly.

  1. derived from *plewk-
  2. inherited from *fleugǭ
  3. inherited from *fleugā
  4. inherited from flȳġe
  5. inherited from flye
  6. compounded as bobfly — “bob + fly

Definitions

  1. The fly fixed at the end of the leader.

    • This fly is always best as the bobfly on the cast.
    • a fish came in on the bobfly
    • He watched the upper fold of the curved line rolling itself out almost parallel to the lower, and the flies finally alighting upon the surface of the water one after the other in beautiful sequence from the bobfly to the tail.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bobfly. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA