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What is a gadfly?

What is a gadfly? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any dipterous insect of the family Oestridae, commonly known as botflies.
  2. A horsefly: any of various species of fly, of the family Tabanidae, noted for buzzing about animals and sucking their blood.
  3. One who upsets the status quo by posing upsetting or novel questions, or attempts to stimulate innovation by proving an irritant.
  4. (pejorative) One who merely irritates without making useful suggestions.
  5. (slang) A bloodsucker
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I am not a developer gadfly and my philosophy with films and developers has always been to stay with things that work well.
Like a gadfly you have been timing your intervention in my sleep routine with uncouth precision.
She was tormented by a furious little gadfly that bit her mercilessly, though she flicked her tail this way and that.
But when I said that gadfly included vicious bullying and teen suicide, he changed tack.
As expected groups such as the albatrosses, diving petrels, gadfly petrels, prions, and shearwaters were all monophyletic.
The Grimm Brothers' tiny boy, unseen, tricked and adventured his way through life, a gadfly getting into places nobody else could.

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