Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A fanciful, often grotesque figurine in the Japanese or Chinese style rendered in a seated position.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Middle English form of
maggot . - noun The Barbary ape, Inuus ecaudatus, which has a small tubercle in place of a tail.
- noun A small grotesque figure; especially, one of the crouching or cross-legged figures common in Chinese or other Oriental art as knobs on the covers of large vases, and in similar uses.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The Barbary ape.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic The
Barbary ape .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Bravo-Zulu to our law enforcement officers for catching this magot.
Obama says 'justice will be done' in Times Square bombing 2010
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Bravo-Zulu to our law enforcement officers for catching this magot.
Obama says 'justice will be done' in Times Square bombing 2010
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Why in hell are these people giving their opinions on what was and what wasn't done during the arrest of this magot.
Rubio: Miranda rights could hamper terror investigations 2010
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In some few this stump is so very short that there appears to be no tail, as in the magot of North Africa and Gibraltar, and in an allied species that inhabits Japan.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 Various
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By magot-pies, and choughs, and rooks brought forth
English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge G. H. Mair 1906
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For I have lived long enough to learn that the monstrous and outlandish figure, the _magot chinois_ whom I believed to be but a memorial of our forefathers 'mental aberration, that grotesque _potiche_, works!
Notes on Life and Letters Joseph Conrad 1890
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But it is not generally known that, on European ground, the magot is not confined solely to the
Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys Mayne Reid 1850
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Osmond Crooke shall lend thee his bow, and thy quarry shall be yon magot-pie. '
Windsor Castle William Harrison Ainsworth 1843
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_potiche_, a _magot chinois_ conceived by a childish and extravagant imagination, but allowed to stand in stolid impotence in the twilight of the upper shelf.
Notes on Life and Letters Joseph Conrad 1890
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Who cares about DNA when it comes to this sack of shit he has been found guilty in a court of law and the taxpayer should have the right to put this magot to sleep with a axe.
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