maggot

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This maggot is the grub of a large black beetle.

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  1. noun The legless, soft-bodied, wormlike larva of any of various flies of the order Diptera, often found in decaying matter.
  2. noun Slang A despicable person.
  3. noun An extravagant notion; a whim.

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  • She was obviously a kind of guardian of the large stupid maggot, and the goad in her hands was an im­plement of chastisement. —  Astounding Stories January, 1935
  • —I extracted twenty Funyes , an insect like a maggot, whose eggs had been inserted on my having been put into an old house infested by them; as they enlarge they stir about and impart a stinging sensation; if disturbed, the head is drawn in a little. —  The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II, 1869-1873
  • “Whaaat?” she moaned, deliberately trying to make her voice loud and drunk Jilssen's watery eyes moved over her, a touch almost as filthy as the maggot-squirming blind man's. —  Hunter,Healer[SequeltoTheSociety]
  • Causing / teaching nothing but filth, evil, future criminals, felons, tricksters, cons, how to screw LE and the FBI, teaching them all by example. maggot is a Tsunami of EVIL, sweeping over FL and maybe beyond. —  Blogger News Network
  • In its larval form, the apple maggot is a major pest of apples throughout the United States. —  YubaNet.com
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  1. Middle English magot, perhaps alteration of mathek, maddokk, perhaps from Old English matha.

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  1. Early modern English also magget, maggette; from Middle English magot, magat, prob. from Welsh maceiad, macai, a maggot (cf. magiaid, grubs, magiad, breeding, magad, a brood), from magu, breed, = Cornish Breton maga, feed.
 

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