Synonyms of the word

gadfly

• n. Any dipterous insect of the family Oestridae, commonly known as botflies.
• n. A horsefly: any of various species of fly, of the family Tabanidae, noted for buzzing about animals and…
• n. One who upsets the status quo by posing upsetting or novel questions, or attempts to stimulate innovation…
• n. (pejorative) One who merely irritates without making useful suggestions.
• n. (slang) A bloodsucker.

blighter

• n. One who blights.
• n. (Britain, often disrespectful) A person, usually male, especially one who behaves in an objectionable…

cuss

• v. (chiefly US) To use cursing, to use bad language, to speak profanely.
• n. (chiefly US) A curse.
• n. (chiefly US) A curse word.
• n. (dated, chiefly US) A fellow, person.

fly

• n. (rural, Scotland, Northern England) A wing.
• n. (zoology) Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings (except for some wingless…
• n. (non-technical) Especially, any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other…
• n. Any similar, but unrelated insect such as dragonfly or butterfly.
• n. (fishing) A lightweight fishing lure resembling an insect.
• n. (weightlifting) A chest exercise performed by moving extended arms from the sides to in front of the chest…
• n. (obsolete) A witch's familiar.
• n. (obsolete) A parasite.
• n. (swimming) The butterfly stroke (plural is normally flys).
• v. (intransitive) To travel through the air, another gas, or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded…
• v. (transitive, intransitive, archaic, poetic) To flee, to escape (from).
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to fly (travel or float in the air): to transport via air or the like.
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, of a proposal, project or idea) To be accepted, come about or work out.
• v. (intransitive) To travel very fast.
• v. To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly.
• v. To hunt with a hawk.
• v. (transitive) To display a flag on a flagpole.
• n. (obsolete) The action of flying; flight.
• n. An act of flying.
• n. (baseball) A fly ball.
• n. (now historical) A type of small, fast carriage (sometimes pluralised flys).
• n. A piece of canvas that covers the opening at the front of a tent.
• n. A strip of material hiding the zipper, buttons etc. at the front of a pair of trousers, pants, underpants,…
• n. The free edge of a flag.
• n. The horizontal length of a flag.
• n. Butterfly, a form of swimming.
• n. (weightlifting) An exercise that involves wide opening and closing of the arms perpendicular to the shoulders.
• n. The part of a vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
• n. (nautical) That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.
• n. Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of…
• n. A heavy wheel, or cross arms with weights at the ends on a revolving axis, to regulate or equalize the…
• n. In a knitting machine, the piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while…
• n. The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.
• n. (weaving) A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.
• n. (printing, historical) The person who took the printed sheets from the press.
• n. (printing, historical) A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power printing press for doing the…
• n. One of the upper screens of a stage in a theatre.
• n. (cotton manufacture) waste cotton.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a fly ball; to hit a fly ball that is caught for an out. Compare ground…
• adj. (slang, dated) Quick-witted, alert, mentally sharp.
• adj. (slang) Well dressed, smart in appearance.
• adj. (slang) Beautiful; displaying physical beauty.

persecutor

• n. A person or thing that persecutes or harasses.

pest

• n. (originally) A plague, pestilence, epidemic.
• n. An annoying, harmful, often destructive creature.
• n. An invasive weed.
• n. An annoying person.

pesterer

• n. Agent noun of pester; one who pesters.

tormenter

• n. Alternative spelling of tormentor.

tormentor

• n. Someone who torments.
• n. An implement for reducing a stiff soil, resembling a harrow, but running upon wheels.