flypaper

名词 n. 动词 v.
/ˈflaɪˌpeɪpɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A strip of paper coated with a sticky, often poisonous, substance that catches and kills flies that land on it. countable,uncountable
    — "What did I tell you? The thing clings like a flypaper," Josella observed to me.
动词 v.
  1. To cause something to become stuck with, or as if with, flypaper.
    — He gets flypapered by a task that should be turned over to a subordinate.

词形变化

flypapers plural flypapers present,singular,third-person flypapering participle,present flypapered participle,past flypapered past

词源

词源 1
From fly + paper.
词源 2
From fly + paper.
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