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Noun: gadfly  'gad,flI
  1. A persistently annoying person
    - pest, blighter [Brit, informal], cuss [informal], pesterer
     
  2. Any of various large flies that annoy livestock

Derived forms: gadflies

Type of: fly, persecutor, tormenter, tormentor

Encyclopedia: Gadfly