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Meaning of flyspeck | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Housefly excrement, visible as a minuscule black dot.
  2. Anything tiny or insignificant.

Equivalents

Polski betka
Svenska fluglort flugskit

Examples

“The wall of the kitchen above the fruitbowl was dotted with flyspeck.”
“From the foothills below, Jean, Jan, and James were mere flyspecks, easily lost among the straggly pines that formed the treeline.”
“We passed through some flyspeck town, barely more than a gas station and a stoplight, but I never saw the name.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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