night fly

English

Noun

night fly (plural night flies)

1. (archaic) A moth that flies at night.
   • 1888, John Bickerdyke, Flyfishing for Mullet:

     At night the fly fisher stands a better chance, and will now and again take a few fish on a white moth. The dressing of a night fly for mullet was described in the following letter, […]

Related terms

• fly-by-night

References

• 1908, Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary.