"thunderfly" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "thunder",
        "3": "fly"
      },
      "expansion": "thunder + fly",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From thunder + fly.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "thunderflies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "thunderfly (plural thunderflies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Insects",
          "orig": "en:Insects",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              140,
              152
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1987, Fleur Adcock, “Wildlife”, in Gillian Clarke, editor, The Poetry Book Society Anthology 1987/88, London: Hutchinson, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Meanwhile at the Conference Centre three fire-engines have screamed up. Not, for once, a student smoking in a bedroom: this time a cloud of thunderflies has chosen to swarm on the pearly-pink just-warm globe of a smoke-detector.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              113,
              125
            ],
            [
              269,
              281
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2005, Susan Wittig Albert, “Sarah Barwick Makes a Mess”, in The Tale of Holly How (The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter; 2), New York, N.Y.: Berkley Prime Crime, →ISBN, page 32:",
          "text": "The afternoon had turned overcast and sultry, and Sawrey drowsed in the growing July heat. Clouds of tiny midges—thunderflies, people called them—very small and black, and thought to be a sign of a coming storm, gathered in the air all over the village. […] And whilst thunderflies didn’t bite or sting, they got in one’s eyes and one’s mouth and were certainly aggravating.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              71,
              83
            ],
            [
              89,
              101
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2015, Michael Nicholson, chapter 14, in Dark Rosaleen: A Famine Novel, Dublin: The History Press Ireland, published 2016, →ISBN, page 205:",
          "text": "‘[…] I remember how we had to make for the boat quickly because of the thunderflies.’ / ‘Thunderflies?’ / ‘Biting midges that could make your life a hell. And the mosquitoes too. We called them buzzers because of the sound they made.[…]’",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any insect of the genus Thrips."
      ],
      "id": "en-thunderfly-en-noun-i4HXHYeU",
      "links": [
        [
          "insect",
          "insect"
        ],
        [
          "Thrips",
          "Thrips#Translingual"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "thunderbug"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "thunderfly"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "thunder",
        "3": "fly"
      },
      "expansion": "thunder + fly",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From thunder + fly.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "thunderflies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "thunderfly (plural thunderflies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English compound terms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Insects"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              140,
              152
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1987, Fleur Adcock, “Wildlife”, in Gillian Clarke, editor, The Poetry Book Society Anthology 1987/88, London: Hutchinson, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Meanwhile at the Conference Centre three fire-engines have screamed up. Not, for once, a student smoking in a bedroom: this time a cloud of thunderflies has chosen to swarm on the pearly-pink just-warm globe of a smoke-detector.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              113,
              125
            ],
            [
              269,
              281
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2005, Susan Wittig Albert, “Sarah Barwick Makes a Mess”, in The Tale of Holly How (The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter; 2), New York, N.Y.: Berkley Prime Crime, →ISBN, page 32:",
          "text": "The afternoon had turned overcast and sultry, and Sawrey drowsed in the growing July heat. Clouds of tiny midges—thunderflies, people called them—very small and black, and thought to be a sign of a coming storm, gathered in the air all over the village. […] And whilst thunderflies didn’t bite or sting, they got in one’s eyes and one’s mouth and were certainly aggravating.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              71,
              83
            ],
            [
              89,
              101
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2015, Michael Nicholson, chapter 14, in Dark Rosaleen: A Famine Novel, Dublin: The History Press Ireland, published 2016, →ISBN, page 205:",
          "text": "‘[…] I remember how we had to make for the boat quickly because of the thunderflies.’ / ‘Thunderflies?’ / ‘Biting midges that could make your life a hell. And the mosquitoes too. We called them buzzers because of the sound they made.[…]’",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any insect of the genus Thrips."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "insect",
          "insect"
        ],
        [
          "Thrips",
          "Thrips#Translingual"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "thunderbug"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "thunderfly"
}