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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.
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- 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.
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Words with the same meaning
- Gothic
- abnormal
- anomalous
- arbitrary
- bad
- barfy
- baroque
- bizarre
- blasted
- blighted
- blown
- brackish
- brain-born
- capricious
- cloying
- crank
- crankish
- cranky
- crappy
- crotchety
- despoiled
- deviant
- deviative
- different
- disgusting
- divergent
- dotty
- dream-built
- eccentric
- erratic
- exceptional
- extravagant
- fanciful
- fancy-born
- fancy-built
- fancy-woven
- fantasied
- fantasque
- fantastic
- fecal
- feculent
- fetid
- fey
- filthy
- flaky
- florid
- flyblown
- foul
- freakish
- frowsty
- frowsy
- frowzy
- fulsome
- funny
- fusty
- gloppy
- grotesque
- gunky
- harebrained
- high
- humorsome
- icky
- idiocratic
- idiosyncratic
- irregular
- kinky
- kooky
- maggotish
- malodorous
- mawkish
- mephitic
- mildewed
- moldering
- moldy
- moody
- moth-eaten
- motiveless
- mucky
- musty
- nasty
- nauseant
- nauseating
- nauseous
- noisome
- notional
- noxious
- nutty
- odd
- oddball
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- offensive
- ordurous
- outlandish
- overripe
- peculiar
- petulant
- poisonous
- preposterous
- puky
- putrid
- queer
- quirky
- rancid
- rank
- ravaged
- rebarbative
- repulsive
- rococo
- rotten
- scabby
- screwball
- screwy
- scummy
- scurfy
- shitty
- sickening
- singular
- slabby
- slimy
- sloppy
- sloshy
- sludgy
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- smutted
- smutty
- spoiled
- sposhy
- stinking
- strange
- temperamental
- twisted
- unconventional
- unnatural
- unreasonable
- unrestrained
- vagarious
- vagrant
- vile
- vomity
- wacky
- wanton
- wayward
- weevily
- whimsical
- wild
- worm
- worm-eaten
- wormy
- yecchy
- yucky
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