MAGGOT


Meaning of MAGGOT in English

n. 1 a larva, esp. of the cheese-fly or bluebottle. 2 a whimsical fancy. maggoty adj.

[ ME perh. alt. f. maddock, earlier mathek f. ON mathkr: cf. MAWKISH ]

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