mosca-varejeira

Portuguese

Noun

mosca-varejeira f (plural moscas-varejeiras)

  1. blowfly; botfly (insect whose larvae are parasites of mammals)
    Synonyms: varejeira, mosca-do-berne
    • 1696, Manuel Bernardes, “Doutrina IX”, in Luz e Calor [Light and Heat], volume I, Lisbon: Miguel Deslandes, classe VI, page 279, column 1:
      Se ouvires no teu interior hũas palavras altas, & rijas, & acceleradas, como zunido de moſca varejeyra, que te dizem, em teu nome proprio, & não de terceyra peſſoa, que faças iſto, ou deyxes de fazer aquelloutro: eſte não he o eſpirito de Deos; ſenão ou o teu proprio, ou o do Anjo mao.
      If you hear in your inside some loud, rough, fast words, like a botfly buzz, that tell you — in your proper name and not a third person's — that you do this or stop doing that: this is not God's ghost, but your own or the evil Angel's.

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