maggoty

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The bird "magpie", originally "maggoty-pie," was so called on account of its whimsical drollery.

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  1. Full of or infested with maggots.
  2. Frisky; capricious; whimsical. [Rare.] To pretend to work out a neat scheme of thoughts with a maggotty, unsettled head is as ridiculous as to think to write straight in a jumbling coach. Norris.

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  • He was sorry he hadn't been able to find anything really putrid, like a maggoty rat corpse, but that was the luck of the game. —  Centaur Aisle
  • It won't be us getting that gush of maggoty fragrance! —  Xiaxue.blogspot.com - Everyone's reading it.
  • Per the Daily News, apparently one detective needed to leave "stinking, maggoty evidence" on a precinct house's rooftop and displays a Lennie Briscoe kind of humor, "This is what you call murder - dirty laundry style - in New York City." —  Gothamist
  • The ambient sound is decidedly creepy, and you never know when the next flash of a maggoty corpse is coming. —  Filmcritic.com Movie Reviews
  • No longer able to unload prime beef, it began grinding up yesterday's maggoty SIV (structured investment vehicle) sub-prime cuts into sausages marbled with fatty debts. —  The Nation - Breaking News
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