flyblow

plural flyblows

1. An egg laid by a fly in animal flesh; a maggot hatched from such an egg.

present singular third person flyblows · participle present flyblowing · past flyblew · participle past flyblown

1. transitiveTo deposit eggs upon, as a blowfly does on flesh; to cause to be maggoty.
2. broadlytransitiveTo taint or contaminate.

   I am unwilling to believe that he designs to play tricks, and to flyblow my words, to make others distaste them.

   1676, Edward Stillingfleet, A Defence of the Discourse Concerning the Idolatry Practised in the Church of Rome