| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun | 1. A tiny dark speck made by the excrement of a fly.[Wordnet]
2. A speck or stain made by the excrement of a fly; hence, any insignificant dot.[Websters]. | |
| Verb | 1. To soil with flyspecks.[Websters] 2. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: flyspecking, flyspecked, flyspecks, flyspecker, flyspeckers, flyspeckingly and flyspeckedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Very small; "the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy".[Wordnet]
2. Very small; "diminutive in stature"; "a lilliputian chest of drawers"; "her petite figure"; "tiny feet"; "the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy".[Wordnet] 3. Being diminutive. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Rarely used base adjective of the adverb flyspeckly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Form (flyspeckly) | 1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective flyspeck.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "FLYSPECK" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
Specialty Expressions: FLYSPECK
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Flyspeck 3 | Computing | Flyspeck 3 Standard name for any font that is so tiny as to be unreadable (by analogy with names like "Helvetica 10" for 10-point Helvetica). Legal boilerplate is usually printed in Flyspeck 3. (1994-11-08). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.. | |
| Flyspeck 3 | Computing | Flyspeck 3 n. Standard name for any font that is so tiny as to be unreadable (by analogy with names like `Helvetica 10' for 10-point Helvetica). Legal boilerplate is usually printed in Flyspeck 3. Source: Jargon File.. | |
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