maggoty


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mag·got

 (măg′ət)
n.
1. The legless, soft-bodied, wormlike larva of any of various dipteran flies, often found in decaying matter.
2. Slang A despicable person.
3. Archaic An extravagant notion; a whim.

[Middle English magot, perhaps alteration of mathek, maddokk, perhaps from Old English matha.]

mag′got·y adj.
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maggoty

(ˈmæɡətɪ)
adj
1. relating to, resembling, or ridden with maggots
2. slang very drunk
3. slang Austral annoyed; angry
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.maggoty - spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of fliesmaggoty - spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies; "flyblown meat"; "a sack of maggoty apricots"
stale - lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age; "stale bread"; "the beer was stale"
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Translations

maggoty

[ˈmægətɪ] ADJagusanado, lleno de gusanos
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maggoty

adjmadig; the cheese has gone all maggotyder Käse wimmelt von Maden
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maggoty

[ˈmægətɪ] adjbacato/a, con i vermi
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References in classic literature ?
It is my own crust of bread that I eat; and though that crust is but a poor one, and sometimes actually a maggoty one, it has at least been EARNED, and therefore, is being put to a right and lawful use.
'But,' he says, 'go up to ours and they are all rotten and maggoty. So,' he says, 'we tie our faces up with kerchiefs and turn our heads away as we drag them off: we can hardly do it.
Just as learning that finding one maggoty wimberry in your Tupperware box after an afternoon of collecting them on Penrhys mountain didn't necessarily mean you had to scream your head off and throw the whole lot into the air.
The commissary generals complained again and again of mouldy bread, weevily biscuit, rancid butter, sour flour, worm-eaten pease, and maggoty beej.
Hugh Gemmell in 1875 in the east end of the harbour, an area originally known as Maggoty Cove and by the 1870s as Hoylestown, and, more precisely, in the area between Hill of Chips and Temperance Street.
MAGGOTY APPLES 6 apples (we used Braeburn) juice 1/2 lemon 100g white chocolate 50g puffed rice jelly worm sweets 1 Core the apples, starting at the base and try to keep the stalk ends intact.
(26) In the pestilent terms of Walter Walker of Civil Assistance, and until 1972 chief of NATO's northern forces 'in charge of rehearsing doomsday scenarios', '[t]he communist Trojan horse is in our midst with its fellow-travellers wriggling their maggoty way inside its belly'.
though dull were all we taste as bright, bitter all utterly things sweet, maggoty minus and dumb death all we inherit, we are translated by "his song and joy so pure / a heart of star by him could steer" with the poem's own desire, metrically marching forward "through dooms of feel" back toward love.
"Pest species of moth that will also likely end up as bat prey include tortrix moths, nibbler of many ornamental plants, especially conservatory favourites such as citrus; codling moth, familiar to any gardener who has bitten into a maggoty apple, and leek moth, the bane of leek growers."
lawyers, doctors, engineers" becomes "a bag of maggoty dreams, long decayed."
It's probably unwise to demand more detailed a milieu from a film that claims the Black Death plague of 1346-53 was in fact foisted upon humanity by a vindictive Witch Queen (Julie Engelbrecht, or what's left of her beneath a maggoty digital mask) bent on total human eradication.
Turns out the meat got maggoty pretty quick, the animal skins became infested with fly larvae and Perry, one of the most strapping alpha males in this Bulgarian Bedrock, missed his dear old nanna so much that he left sobbing like a baby within a few hours of donning his loin cloth.