- gnat⇄buffalo fly orgnat
a black fly having a protruding thorax. One kind lives in the lower Mississippi Valley and attacks cattle. - gnat⇄expr. strain at a gnat, to object to some small or very trifling thing.
Ex. Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel (Matthew 23:24). - gnat⇄gnat, noun.
1. any one of various small, two-winged insects or flies. Most gnats are blood-sucking and make bites that itch.
2. (British.) a mosquito.