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/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]
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Maggoty — Mag got*y, a. 1. Infested with maggots. [1913 Webster] 2. Full of whims; capricious. Norris. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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 — 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
