Definitions
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- adj. Infested with and/or partially eaten by maggots; flyblown.
- adj. Full of whims; capricious.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Infested with maggots.
- adj. Full of whims; capricious.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Full of or infested with maggots.
- Frisky; capricious; whimsical.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies
Etymologies
Examples
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The seething, maggoty inner lives of these people is bursting forth.
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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.
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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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I would gag over these repulsive, maggoty soft things.
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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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The two windows of the top corner maggoty office blow right out, glass raining down onto the empty sidewalk.
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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.
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And this week in Texas, the battle for the hearts and misinformed minds has finally borne its bruised, maggoty fruit.
Doug Molitor: Texas Solution for Smart-Aleck Kids: Dumb 'Em Down
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I remember maggoty tins of food: solidarity or something.
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After the gathering at Lochvie, you said he was a maggoty light skirt of a man who—
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
phuzzy commented on the word maggoty
February 2, 2007