flyblown : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: flyblown	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for flyblown
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
flyblown adj spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies; "flyblown meat"; "a sack of maggoty apricots" Synonym(s): flyblown, maggoty 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" Synonym(s): flyblown, squalid, sordid especially of reputation; "a flyblown reputation"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Flyblown \Fly"blown`\, a. Tainted or contaminated with flyblows; damaged; foul. Wherever flyblown reputations were assembled. --Thackeray.