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Maggoty

//ˈmæɡəti// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Infested with and/or partially eaten by maggots; flyblown. literally

    "He pilots his disreputable father-in-law through the maggotier parts of the Big Apple, tries out unsuccessfully for a job as gorilla, pulls off an unconvincing fraud (surely Gothamites don’t hand over against an uncleared cheque?)."

  2. 2
    Full of whims; capricious; freakish. dated

    "the Maggoty Turn of Fortune's Wheel"

  3. 3
    Unpleasant or bad-tempered.

    "I want you to know that I think you are a maggoty mother-fucking son of a bitch"

Adjective
  1. 1
    spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies wordnet

Etymology

From maggot + -y.

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