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  1. maddock love

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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. A maggot.

Wiktionary

  1. n. obsolete an earthworm, a maggot

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English maddoc, from an unrecorded Old English form corresponding to Old Norse maðkr (whence dialectal English mawk, Danish madike, Swedish mask), originally a diminutive of the Proto-Germanic *maþô (“worm”) (whence Old English maþa), equivalent to made (“maggot”) +‎ -ock. (Wiktionary)

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  • bilby Also: mawk. Sep 25, 2008

  • sionnach

    1. (obsolete) an earthworm, a maggot
    May 4, 2008

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