Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Full of or infested with maggots.
- Frisky; capricious; whimsical.
Wiktionary
- adj. literally Infested with and/or partially eaten by maggots; flyblown.
- adj. obsolete Full of whims; capricious.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Infested with maggots.
- adj. Full of whims; capricious.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies
Etymologies
- maggot + -y. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The seething, maggoty inner lives of these people is bursting forth.”
“To come up with Best Books lists in this environment is little more than an exercise in pecking the least maggoty bits from carrion.”
“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.”
“I would gag over these repulsive, maggoty soft things.”
“When the horse meat ran out a new fetid and maggoty lump had to be dragged out from under a tarpaulin some distance away.”
“The two windows of the top corner maggoty office blow right out, glass raining down onto the empty sidewalk.”
“He grabs my shirt and yanks really hard, and we are flying, out of the maggoty office, down the maggoty stairwell.”
“And this week in Texas, the battle for the hearts and misinformed minds has finally borne its bruised, maggoty fruit.”
The Huffington Post: Doug Molitor: Texas Solution for Smart-Aleck Kids: Dumb 'Em Down
“I remember maggoty tins of food: solidarity or something.”
“After the gathering at Lochvie, you said he was a maggoty light skirt of a man who—”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘maggoty’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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A Glossary of Filth
A compilation of those nitty-gritty yucky terms for substances and situations that we prefer not to encounter. Please folks, keep it clean; avoid the overly offensive ones.
"the terms...schmutz, smegma, muck, snarge, sewerage, mecomium, sewage, sebum, toe jam, pus, sludge, backwash and 130 more...
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I, Claudius
Words taken from I, Claudius by Robert Graves.
evocation, aureus, sestertii, denarii, assegai, pilum, framea, sibyl, propitiatory, duenna, tyrannicide, maggoty and 136 more...
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phuzzy's Words
entomophagan, corpuscle, mellifluence, haberdasher, milliner, tow, spartan, bdellotomy, trepan, trephine, congenial, courtly and 208 more...
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A Dram Too Many
notanotherjazzpoet had a very promising list which appears to have petered out. Yes, tosspots: descriptions of being drunk. Walk five metres on the white line then leave your suggestions right here.
drunk, guttered, pissed, baked, three sails in th..., smashed, paralytic, out of your tree, hammered, bombed, glazed, blotto and 336 more...
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Words that are fun to say
stipple, carbuncle, dongle, exemplar, misbegotten, gigolo, salubrious, jupiter, propinquity, piglet, tobogganing, supercilious and 309 more...
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implify's Words
gaia, eviscerate, lament, ephemeral, urbane, blight, variant, schadenfreude, hubbub, iteration, feign, hobgoblin and 243 more...
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word set7
brownie wings, apostasy, agents provocateurs, de rigueur, epiphenomenonal, gregorian calendar, morganatic, geomagnetic storm, syncopated, oppositionist, civil twilight, topologically and 75 more...
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hernesheir 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.
Nov 29, 2011