DCHP-1 Online
bulldog fly 
any one of several species of horsefly, especially Chrysops.
See also: bulldog bull-fly caribou fly deer fly flesh fly horse-fly moose-fly
- 1848 (1890 [1859]) . . . the whole room was filled with mosquitoes and bulldog flies.
- 1963 Her face was swollen from continuous bites of mosquitoes, bulldog, black and no-seeum flies. . . .
- 1848 (1890 [1859]) . . . the whole room was filled with mosquitoes and bulldog flies.