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maggot

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mag·got  (mgt)
n.
1. The legless, soft-bodied, wormlike larva of any of various flies of the order Diptera, often found in decaying matter.
2. Slang A despicable person.
3. An extravagant notion; a whim.
[Middle English magot, perhaps alteration of mathek, maddokk, perhaps from Old English matha.]
maggot·y adj.
maggot
Noun
the limbless larva of various insects, esp. the housefly and blowfly [earlier mathek]
maggoty adj
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.maggotmaggot - 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
Translations
Spanish maggot [ˈmægət] n → gusano
French maggot [ˈmægət] n → ver m, asticot m
German maggot [ˈmægət] n → Made f
Italian maggot [ˈmægət] n → baco, verme m
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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.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
When there's a bigger maggot than usial in your head you call it
Adam Bede by Eliot, George View in context
They would have to be passed through a powerful press first, to squeeze their old notions out of them, so that they would not soon get upon their legs again; and then there would be some one in the company with a maggot in his head, hatched from an egg deposited there nobody knows when, for not even fire kills these things, and you would have lost your labor.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
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