Maggoty

Maggoty
Maggoty Mag"got*y, a. 1. Infested with maggots. [1913 Webster]

2. Full of whims; capricious. --Norris. [1913 Webster]


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  • maggoty — adjective spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies flyblown meat a sack of maggoty apricots • Syn: ↑flyblown • Similar to: ↑stale • Derivationally related forms: ↑maggot …   Useful english dictionary

  • maggoty — adjective see maggot …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • maggoty — /mag euh tee/, adj. 1. infested with maggots, as food. 2. Archaic. having queer notions; full of whims. 3. Australian Slang. angry; bad tempered. [1660 70; MAGGOT + Y1] * * * …   Universalium

  • maggoty — adjective Infested with and/or partially eaten by maggots; flyblown. Syn: maggotish …   Wiktionary

  • maggoty — Synonyms and related words: Gothic, abnormal, anomalous, arbitrary, bad, barfy, baroque, bizarre, blasted, blighted, blown, brackish, brain born, capricious, cloying, crank, crankish, cranky, crappy, crotchety, despoiled, deviant, deviative,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • maggoty — (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. wormy, gone bad, tainted; see infested , rancid 1 , rotten 1 , 2 …   English dictionary for students

  • maggoty — mag·got·y || mægÉ™tɪ adj. full of maggots, infested with the larvae of certain flies; fanciful, capricious …   English contemporary dictionary

  • maggoty — a. 1. Fly blown, full of maggots. 2. Whimsical, crotchety, capricious, fantastic, fantastical, odd, strange, fanciful, freakish …   New dictionary of synonyms

  • maggoty — adj 1. flyblown, wormy, grubby, maggot infested, maggot ridden. 2. fanciful, whimsical, crotchety, capricious, flighty, unpredictable, erratic, irregular; odd, eccentric, strange, bizarre, queer, outlandish, freaky, freakish, kinky …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • maggoty — mag·goty …   English syllables

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