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maggoty

[ mag-uh-tee ]

adjective

  1. infested with maggots, as food.
  2. Archaic. having queer notions; full of whims.
  3. Australian Slang. angry; bad-tempered.


maggoty

/ ˈmæɡətɪ /

adjective

  1. relating to, resembling, or ridden with maggots
  2. slang.
    very drunk
  3. slang.
    annoyed, angry
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of maggoty1

First recorded in 1660–70; maggot + -y 1
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Example Sentences

I stand in one place in a grocery and look at maggoty cabbages for fifteen minutes while he tries to decide what to do.

As snakes, cannibals and maggoty supernatural beings rattle around the frame, “Jungle Cruise” exhibits a blatantly faux exoticism that feels as flat as the forced frisson between its two leads.

Another paper put it this way: “An old maid is one of the most cranky, ill-natured, maggoty, peevish, conceited, disagreeable, hypocritical, fretful, noisy, gibing, canting, censorious, out-of-the-way, never-to-be-pleased, good-for-nothing creatures.”

“I was having a maggoty nightmare about those Hopper people,” she said.

“Isle of Dogs” takes off as Atari searches for Spots, a heroic quest that leads him to a canine penal colony, a wasteland where mysteriously sick dogs fight over morsels gleaned from rancid, maggoty garbage.

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