Meaning

4 senses

  1. A soft, legless larva of a fly or other dipteran insect, that often eats decomposing organic matter.

    Made, Fleischmade

    опа́рышopáryš, личи́нкаličínka, червьčervʹ

    опа́ришopáryš

    the larva of the housefly and blowfly commonly found in decaying organic matter

  2. (derogatory, slang, vulgar)A worthless, obnoxious or contemptible person.

    Drop and give me fifty, maggot.

    червьčervʹ, гни́даgnída

    черв'я́кčervʺják, гни́даhnýda

  3. (slang)A fan of the American metal band Slipknot.

  4. (archaic, dialectal)A whimsy or fancy.

    причу́даpričúda, фанта́зияfantázija, блажьblažʹ

Examples

21 sentences

  1. I heard that a paralyzed man was eaten alive by maggots.

    deIch habe gehört, dass ein Gelähmter lebendig von Würmern zerfressen wurde. — Sudajaengi

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  2. The meat was crawling with maggots.

    deDas Fleisch wimmelte von Maden. — Yorwba

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  3. This cookie is full of maggots.

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  4. The food has turned into maggots.

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  5. Miroslav saw maggots dropping to the floor.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
dipterous insect's larva that eats decomposing organic matter:
worthless person:
Русский
By meaning 3
dipterous insect's larva that eats decomposing organic matter:
worthless person:
whimsy or fancy:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
dipterous insect's larva that eats decomposing organic matter:

Origin

From Middle English magot, magat, maked, probably a metathetic alteration of maddock, maðe

From Middle English magot, magat, maked, probably a metathetic alteration of maddock, maðek (“worm", "maggot”), originally a diminutive form of a base represented by Old English maþa (Scots mathe), from Proto-West Germanic *maþō, from 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, Icelandic maðkur (“worm, grub, maggot”).

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Forms

plural: maggots
Singularmaggot
Pluralmaggots

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
soft legless larva:grub

Word family

22 related words
Relatedmawkmawkishmaggoty
Derivedantimaggotapple maggotdemaggotfox maggotmaggot bagmaggot cheesemaggotedmaggotinessmaggotishmaggotlessmaggotlikemaggotoriummaggot-patedmaggotrymaggot therapyonion maggotpea-maggotrat-tailed maggotseedcorn maggot

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
magazineA1magemagentamagicA2magicalB1

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