Gadfly vs Botts - What's the difference?
gadfly | botts |
Any dipterous insect of the family Oestridae, commonly known as botflies.
A horsefly: any of various species of fly, of the family Tabanidae, noted for buzzing about animals and sucking their blood.
One who upsets the status quo by posing upsetting or novel questions, or attempts to stimulate innovation by proving an irritant.
(pejorative) One who merely irritates without making useful suggestions.
(slang) A bloodsucker
The disease caused by the maggots of the horse bot fly when they infect the stomach of a horse.
(by extension) Infection by gadfly maggots under the skin of cows, or by sheep maggots in the frontal sinus of sheep.
As nouns the difference between gadfly and botts
is that gadfly is any dipterous insect of the family oestridae, commonly known as botflies while botts is the disease caused by the maggots of the horse bot fly when they infect the stomach of a horse.gadfly
English
Noun
(wikipedia gadfly) (gadflies)- He's a regular gadfly and takes advantage of his friend's generosity.