mag·got

(măg′ət)

1. The legless, soft-bodied, wormlike larva of any of various dipteran flies, often found in decaying matter.

2. Slang A despicable person.

3. Archaic An extravagant notion; a whim.

[Middle English magot, perhaps alteration of mathek, maddokk, perhaps from Old English matha.]

mag′got·y adj.

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maggot

(ˈmæɡət)

1. (Zoology) the soft limbless larva of dipterous insects, esp the housefly and blowfly, occurring in decaying organic matter

2. rare a fancy or whim

[C14: from earlier mathek; related to Old Norse mathkr worm, Old English matha, Old High German mado grub]

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

mag•got

(ˈmæg ət)

n.

1. a soft-bodied, legless larva of certain flies.

2. an odd fancy; whim.

[1425–75;< Old Norse mathkr]

mag′got•y, adj.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

maggot - the larva of the housefly and blowfly commonly found in decaying organic matter

grub - a soft thick wormlike larva of certain beetles and other insects

maggot

noun worm, grub fetid, maggot-infested meat

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Translations

دود الطُّعْمدُودَةٌ

červlarva

larvemaddike

Made

σκουλήκι εντόμου

gusano cresa helminto verme

toukkakärpäsentoukkalieromato

asticot larve

crv

kukac

maîkur, lirfa

larva verme baco idea fissa

うじ

구더기

kāpurs, tārps

made worm

larve

larwa

larva de insecto larva de inseto

личинка

ličinka

masklarvlikmaskmaggot

หนอน

kurtçuksürfe

con giòi

蛆

maggot

[ˈmægət] N → cresa f, gusano m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

maggot

[ˈmægət] n (= grub) → ver m, asticot m

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

maggot

n → Made f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

maggot

[ˈmægət] n → verme m, baco

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

maggot

(ˈmӕgət) noun

the worm-like grub or larva of a fly, especially a bluebottle.

maggot

→ دُودَةٌ červ maddike Made σκουλήκι εντόμου cresa, gusano toukka asticot crv verme うじ 구더기 made larve larwa larva de insecto, larva de inseto личинка mask หนอน kurtçuk con giòi 蛆

mag·got

n. larva de un insecto.

maggot

n cresa, larva de mosca

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But 'the maggot gnaws the cabbage, yet dies first'; that's what the old folks used to tell us," he added rapidly.

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He had seen a great vision and was as a god, and he could feel only profound and awful pity for this maggot of a man.

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"I thought she'd got some maggot in her head, she's gone about wi' her mouth buttoned up so all day.

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As on the ruined human wretch vermin parasites appear, so these ruined shelters have bred a crowd of foul existence that crawls in and out of gaps in walls and boards; and coils itself to sleep, in maggot numbers, where the rain drips in; and comes and goes, fetching and carrying fever and sowing more evil in its every footprint than Lord Coodle, and Sir Thomas Doodle, and the Duke of Foodle, and all the fine gentlemen in office, down to Zoodle, shall set right in five hundred years--though born expressly to do it.

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But it was not thus in the present case with the Pequod's sharks; though, to be sure, any man unaccustomed to such sights, to have looked over her side that night, would have almost thought the whole round sea was one huge cheese, and those sharks the maggots in it.

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Are poisoned fountains necessary, and stinking fires, and filthy dreams, and maggots in the bread of life?

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For so John Barleycorn tricks and lures, setting the maggots of intelligence gnawing, whispering his fatal intuitions of truth, flinging purple passages into the monotony of one's days.

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Here you shall lie alone and in darkness with the carcass of your accomplice festering in its rottenness by your side, until crazed by loneliness and hunger you feed upon the crawling maggots that were once a man."

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What he saw was merely a four-legged animal to be thrust aside while he continued his lordly two-legged progress toward the bottle that could set maggots crawling in his brain and make him dream dreams that he was prince, not peasant, that he was a master of matter rather than a slave of matter.

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Speaking as a man, I consider you to be a person whose head is full of maggots, and I take up my testimony against your experiment as a delusion and a snare.

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She said: "There has been a huge increase in healthcare professionals requesting maggot therapy for their patients.

Why maggots can be your best pals! In association with the NHS Present a container of maggots to most people and they would run a mile, but demand for maggot therapy has resulted in a wound care company appointing a specialist nurse to treat patients. LAURA CAROE finds out more

The use of maggots to clean necrotic wounds, known as maggot debridement therapy (MDT), has been recorded since the 1500s.

Maggot debridement therapy