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caterpillar
English
Alternative forms
- caterpiller (archaic)
Etymology
From Middle English catirpel, catirpeller, probably from Old Northern French catepeluse (Modern French chatte + pileuse (“hairy cat”)), from Late Latin catta + pil?sa.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?kæt??p?l?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?kæt??p?l?/
Noun
caterpillar (plural caterpillars)
- The larva of a butterfly or moth; leafworm
- A vehicle with a caterpillar track; a crawler
- (mathematics) A set of subtrees of a tree
Synonyms
- (moth or butterfly larva): leafworm
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- pillar
caterpillar From the web:
- what caterpillars are poisonous
- what caterpillars turn into butterflies
- what caterpillars eat
- what caterpillars turn into moths
- what caterpillar is this
- what caterpillars are poisonous in florida
- what caterpillars sting
- what caterpillars eat dill
maggot
English
Etymology
From Middle English magot, magotte, probably Anglo-Norman alteration of maddock (“worm", "maggot”), originally a diminutive form of a base represented by Old English maþa (Scots mathe), from Frankish *maþ?, from common Proto-Germanic *maþô, from the Proto-Indo-European root *mat, which was used in insect names, equivalent to made +? -ock. Near-cognates include Dutch made, German Made and Swedish mask.
The use of maggot to mean a fanciful or whimsical thing derives from the folk belief that a whimsical or crotchety person had maggots in his or her brain.
Pronunciation
- enPR: m?g'?t, IPA(key): /?mæ??t/
Noun
maggot (plural maggots)
- A soft, legless larva of a fly or other dipterous insect, that often eats decomposing organic matter. [from 15th c.]
- (derogatory) A worthless person. [from 17th c.]
- Drop and give me fifty, maggot.
- (now archaic, regional) A whimsy or fancy. [from 17th c.]
- 1620, John Fletcher, Women Pleased, III.iv.
- Are you not mad, my friend? What time o' th' moon is't? / Have not you maggots in your brain?
- 1778, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin 2001, p. 100:
- ‘I am ashamed of him! how can he think of humouring you in such maggots!’
- 1620, John Fletcher, Women Pleased, III.iv.
- (slang) A fan of the American metal band Slipknot.
Synonyms
- (soft legless larva): grub
Derived terms
Related terms
- mawk
- mawkish
Translations
maggot From the web:
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- what maggots turn into
- what maggots look like
- what maggots eat
- what maggots mean
- what maggots do
- what maggots mean spiritually
- what maggots eat dead flesh
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