Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Full of or infested with maggots.
- Frisky; capricious; whimsical.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Infested with maggots.
- adjective Full of whims; capricious.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective literally
Infested with and/or partially eaten bymaggots ;flyblown . - adjective obsolete Full of
whims ;capricious .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies
Etymologies
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Examples
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The two windows of the top corner maggoty office blow right out, glass raining down onto the empty sidewalk.
Angry Young Man Chris Lynch 2011
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He grabs my shirt and yanks really hard, and we are flying, out of the maggoty office, down the maggoty stairwell.
Angry Young Man Chris Lynch 2011
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So we talked about the pup for a minute, but just as I was pointing to the patches on his skin that looked maggoty the two kids came out with a woman and seemed really concerned I was standing over the dog with a dude in a uniform.
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When the horse meat ran out a new fetid and maggoty lump had to be dragged out from under a tarpaulin some distance away.
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I would gag over these repulsive, maggoty soft things.
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So we talked about the pup for a minute, but just as I was pointing to the patches on his skin that looked maggoty the two kids came out with a woman and seemed really concerned I was standing over the dog with a dude in a uniform.
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To come up with Best Books lists in this environment is little more than an exercise in pecking the least maggoty bits from carrion.
OCD 2009
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The seething, maggoty inner lives of these people is bursting forth.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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To come up with Best Books lists in this environment is little more than an exercise in pecking the least maggoty bits from carrion.
October 2009 2009
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To come up with Best Books lists in this environment is little more than an exercise in pecking the least maggoty bits from carrion.
hernesheir commented on the word maggoty
Frisky; capricious; whimsical.
Several English Country dances carry the term "maggot" in their titles, including Betty's Maggot, Mr. Beveridge's Maggot, Mr. Isaac's Maggot, and Huntington's Maggot.
November 30, 2011