- fluff louse
- noun
: a small broad biting louse (Goniocotes gallinae) that lives and feeds on the fluff at the base of the feathers on domestic poultry and some other birds
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fluff louse
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louse up — verb make a mess of, destroy or ruin (Freq. 2) I botched the dinner and we had to eat out the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement • Syn: ↑botch, ↑bodge, ↑bumble, ↑fumble, ↑bot … Useful english dictionary
louse — Common name for members of the ectoparasitic insect orders Anoplura (sucking lice) and Mallophaga (biting lice). Important species are Felicola subrostrata (cat l.), Goniocotes gallinae (fluff l.), Goniodes dissimilis (brown chicken l.),… … Medical dictionary
fluff — Synonyms and related words: Irish bull, aerate, air, anacoluthon, bad job, ball up, bevue, bloomer, blooper, blow, blubber, blunder, bobble, boggle, bollix, bonehead play, boner, boo boo, boot, botch, breeze, bubble, bull, bungle, butter,… … Moby Thesaurus
louse up — Synonyms and related words: ball up, bitch, bitch up, blow, bobble, bollix, bollix up, bonehead into it, boot, bugger, bugger up, bungle, complicate, confound, confuse, cook, crab, cramp, crimp, drop a brick, drop the ball, duff, embrangle,… … Moby Thesaurus
goniocotes — ˌgōnēəˈkōd.(ˌ)ēz noun Usage: capitalized Etymology: New Latin, from goni + cotes (from Greek kotis, kottis occiput) : a genus of bird lice attacking various wild and domestic birds see fluff louse … Useful english dictionary
ball up — verb make a mess of, destroy or ruin I botched the dinner and we had to eat out the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement • Syn: ↑botch, ↑bodge, ↑bumble, ↑fumble, ↑botch up, ↑muff, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
bollix — verb make a mess of, destroy or ruin I botched the dinner and we had to eat out the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement • Syn: ↑botch, ↑bodge, ↑bumble, ↑fumble, ↑botch up, ↑muff, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
bollix up — verb make a mess of, destroy or ruin I botched the dinner and we had to eat out the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement • Syn: ↑botch, ↑bodge, ↑bumble, ↑fumble, ↑botch up, ↑muff, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
bollocks up — verb make a mess of, destroy or ruin I botched the dinner and we had to eat out the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement • Syn: ↑botch, ↑bodge, ↑bumble, ↑fumble, ↑botch up, ↑muff, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
botch up — verb make a mess of, destroy or ruin I botched the dinner and we had to eat out the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement • Syn: ↑botch, ↑bodge, ↑bumble, ↑fumble, ↑muff, ↑blow, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
