maggoty
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maggoty (comparative more maggoty, superlative most maggoty)
- (literally) Infested with and/or partially eaten by maggots; flyblown.
- (obsolete) Full of whims; capricious; freakish.
- 1694, Nicolas Rémond des Cours, unknown translator, The True Conduct of Persons of Quality:
- the Maggoty Turn of Fortune's Wheel
- unpleasant or bad-tempered
- 1975, Robert Lipscomb Duncan, Dragons at the Gate:
- I want you to know that I think you are a maggoty mother-fucking son of a bitch
Synonyms edit
- flyblown
- maggotish (obsolete)
- worm-eaten
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Translations edit
infested with and/or partially eaten by maggots
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References edit
- “maggoty”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.