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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
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mawky
English
Etymology
From mawk +? -y.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [m??ki]
- Rhymes: -??ki
Adjective
mawky (comparative mawkier, superlative mawkiest)
- (Northern England, Appalachia) Maggoty, full of maggots.
- 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 130:
- What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for souls so poor as this flesh. This mawky wormbent tabernacle.
- 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 130:
Related terms
- mawk
mawky From the web:
- what does gawky mean
- what is the meaning of gawky
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