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gnat
[ nat ]
noun
- any of certain small flies, especially the biting gnats or punkies of the family Ceratopogonidae, the midges of the family Chironomidae, and the black flies of the family Simuliidae.
- British. mosquito.
gnat
/ næt /
noun
- any of various small fragile biting dipterous insects of the suborder Nematocera, esp Culex pipiens ( common gnat ), which abounds near stagnant water
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Derived Forms
- ˈgnatˌlike, adjective
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Other Words From
- gnatlike adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of gnat1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of gnat1
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Idioms and Phrases
- strain at a gnat and swallow a camel, to fuss about trifles while ignoring more serious matters.
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Example Sentences
Some kind of fly, gnit, gnat, tick or flea of some kind...the desert kind.
He recently tweeted that a certain Post reporter is “a sleazy, from-under-a-rock tab gnat.”
JASON ( swatting an imaginary gnat): Hope over fear... What a crock.
Dun Gnat—from inside wing feather of a Landrail and fawn coloured silk—cypher hook.
The Black Gnat—dubbed with black mohair, the wings of the lightest part of a starling.
Little Black Gnat—dubbed with black strands from an ostrich, wings, light feather from underneath starling's wing.
My, it was a feast that made his eyes open and his stomach swell like a toad's trying to swallow a gnat.
When once this Gnat had disappeared—and the life of the Mosquito is not a long one—the bird would die of starvation.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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