English
Noun
flyspeck (plural flyspeck or flyspecks)
- housefly|Housefly excrement, visible as a miniscule black dot.
#: The wall of the kitchen above the fruitbowl was dotted with flyspeck.
- By extension of above, anything tiny or insignificant.
#: From the foothills below, Jean, Jan, and James were mere flyspecks, easily lost among the straggly pines that formed the treeline.
Adjective
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- (mild pejorative) puny|Puny; barely worth noticing.
#: We passed through some flyspeck town, barely more than a gas station and a stoplight, but I never saw the name.
Synonyms
pissant
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