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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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botts
English
Etymology
Possibly a modification of Scottish Gaelic boiteag 'maggot'
Noun
botts (uncountable)
- The disease caused by the maggots of the horse bot fly when they infect the stomach of a horse.
- (by extension) Infection by maggots under the skin of cows, or by sheep maggots in the frontal sinus of sheep.
Usage notes
The noun is usually used in the plural with the definite article. ("The botts")
See also
- botfly
- myiasis
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