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Maggoty

adjective
1.
Spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies.  Synonym: flyblown.  "A sack of maggoty apricots"





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"Maggoty" Quotes from Famous Books



... seraphic once more. "Somehow or other, I invariably mix up Norway and Sweden and Denmark. I know I shall always look upon Gerda as an Ibsen girl, who has come here to 'live her life,' or 'work out her inheritance.' Perhaps, dear, she has some interesting internal disease, or a maggoty brain. Don't you think, Archie, that the Ibsen inheritances are always most fascinating? A ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) • Various


Words linked to "Maggoty" :   flyblown, maggot, stale


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