cheese fly

noun
/ˈt͡ʃiːz.flaɪ/

Etymology

From cheese + fly.

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

Definitions

  1. Piophila casei, a small fly whose larvae infest cheese and other foods.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cheese fly. 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