fly-paper
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.58 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
5
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Alternative form of flypaper.
Example Sentences
- ": Mrs. Maybrick purchased these fly-papers from two chemists' shops, where she was well known."
- "Fly-paper has accomplished nothing. The percentage of flies that get hitched to it is but one in the hundred, and the other ninety-nine assemble as at a circus and enjoy the.performance."
- "We get rid of flies with fly-spray and by hanging up fly-paper."
- "Be firm, Woody, don't get fly-papered into staying on here."
- "For people who fear getting fly-papered by a first job, the Tremayne case makes it clear that the first job can be a stepping-stone to bigger and better things."
- "Once Pleurobrachia senses it has 'fly-papered' a copepod onto a tentacle, it spins its body to rapidly wrap its tentacles around the body, somehow wiping the copepod across the single body opening to the central gut."