maggoty

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Etymology

maggot +‎ -y.

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Adjective

maggoty (comparative more maggoty, superlative most maggoty)

  1. (literally) Infested with and/or partially eaten by maggots; flyblown.
  2. (obsolete) Full of whims; capricious; freakish.
    • 1694, Nicolas Rémond des Cours, unknown translator, The True Conduct of Persons of Quality:
      the Maggoty Turn of Fortune's Wheel
  3. unpleasant or bad-tempered
    • 1975, Robert Lipscomb Duncan, Dragons at the Gate:
      I want you to know that I think you are a maggoty mother-fucking son of a bitch

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