maggot

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Pronunciation

• enPR: măg'ət, IPA: /ˈmæɡət/

Noun

maggot (plural maggots)

1. A soft, legless larva of a fly or other dipterous insect, that often eats decomposing organic matter. [from 15th c.]
2. (derogatory) A worthless person. [from 17th c.]

   Drop and give me fifty, maggot.

3. (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!’

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

Synonyms

• (soft legless larva) grub

Related terms

• mawk
• mawkish

Translations

• French: asticot, larve (larva)
• German: Made, Fleischmade
• Italian: larva, verme, baco
• Portuguese: larva
• Russian: опа́рыш
• Spanish: larva, cresa, gusano, verme, vierme (obsolete)

Translations

• Italian: verme
• Portuguese: verme
• Russian: червь
• Spanish: gusano

Translations

• Portuguese: capricho
• Russian: причу́да

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