Definition of "flyspeck" in English

noun

1. Housefly excrement, visible as a minuscule black dot.

   • The wall of the kitchen above the fruitbowl was dotted with flyspeck.

2. (by extension) Anything tiny or insignificant.

   • From the foothills below, Jean, Jan, and James were mere flyspecks, easily lost among the straggly pines that formed the treeline.
   • We passed through some flyspeck town, barely more than a gas station and a stoplight, but I never saw the name.

verb

1. To bespeckle with tiny spatters of color.

2. To inspect in minute detail to ensure that something contains no flaws; nitpick.