maggot
nounverbadjectiveattested in dialogue
- //ˈmæɡət//
- //ˈmeɪ̯ɡət//
A soft, legless larva of a fly or other dipteran insect, that often eats decomposing organic matter.
noun
- 1
A soft, legless larva of a fly or other dipteran insect, that often eats decomposing organic matter.
- 2
slangA worthless, obnoxious or contemptible person.
Drop and give me fifty, maggot.
"Maggot!" said Catweazle angrily. "Sit thee down!"
- 3
archaicA whimsy or fancy.
Are you not mad, my friend? What time o' th' moon is't? / Have not you maggots in your brain?
‘I am ashamed of him! how can he think of humouring you in such maggots!’
[…] If you draw, Sir, there's one prospect up the river, by the mills—upon my conscience—but you don't draw?' No answer. 'A little, Sir, maybe? Just for a maggot, I'll wager—like my good lady, Mrs. Toole.'
Scotland Yard have two maggots which crop up whenever anything happens to a young woman. Either it’s White Slavery or Dope Dens—sometimes both.
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slangA fan of the American metal band Slipknot.
(We) We are the new diabolic (We) We are the bitter bucolic If I have to give my life, you can have it (We) We are the pulse of the maggots
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Variant of MAGAtslangAlternative form of MAGAt.
Etymology
From Middle English magot, magat, maked, probably a metathetic alteration of maddock, maðek (“worm", "maggot”), originally a diminutive form of a base represented by Old English maþa (Scots mathe), from Proto-West Germanic *maþō, from Proto-Germanic *maþô, from the Proto-Indo-European root *mat, which was used in insect names, equivalent to made + -ock. Near-cognates include Dutch made, German Made and Swedish mask, Icelandic maðkur (“worm, grub, maggot”). The use of maggot to mean a fanciful or whimsical thing derives from the folk belief that a whimsical or crotchety person had maggots in their brain.
verb
- 1
To rid (an animal) of maggots.
In the summer I had to get the sheep penned twice a day to maggot them and I needed a good dog.
adjective
- 1
Variant of maggotedAlternative form of maggoted (“drunk; intoxicated”).
Forms
- plural
- maggots
- comparative
- more maggot
- superlative
- most maggot
- past tense
- maggoted
- past participle
- maggoted
- present participle
- maggoting
- third person singular
- maggots
maggot · A soft, legless larva of a fly or other dipteran insect, that often eats decomposing organic matter.
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