noun (plural or flyspecks)

1. housefly, Housefly excrement, visible as a miniscule black dot.

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

1. By extension of above, 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.

adjective

1. (mild pejorative) puny, Puny; barely worth noticing.

We passed through some town, barely more than a gas station and a stoplight, but I never saw the name.