maggot

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A worthless person.

   Drop and give me fifty, maggot.

2. 2
   noun

   A whimsy or fancy.

   Are you not mad, my friend? What time o' th' moon is't? / Have not you maggots in your brain?

3. 3
   noun

   A fan of the American metal band Slipknot.

   (We) We are the new diabolic (We) We are the bitter bucolic If I have to give my life, you can have it (We) We are the pulse of the maggots

4. 4
   verb

   To rid (an animal) of maggots.

   In the summer I had to get the sheep penned twice a day to maggot them and I needed a good dog.

5. 5
   noun

   the larva of the housefly and blowfly commonly found in decaying organic matter

6. 6
   noun

   A soft, legless larva of a fly or other dipteran insect, that often eats decomposing organic matter.

7. 7
   noun

   Alternative form of MAGAt.

8. 8
   adj

   Alternative form of maggoted (“drunk; intoxicated”).

Etymology

From Middle English magot, magat, maked, probably a metathetic alteration of maddock, maðek (“worm", "maggot”), originally a diminutive form of a base represented by Old English maþa (Scots mathe), from Proto-West Germanic *maþō, from Proto-Germanic *maþô, from the Proto-Indo-European root *mat, which was used in insect names, equivalent to made + -ock. Near-cognates include Dutch made, German Made and Swedish mask, Icelandic maðkur (“worm, grub, maggot”). The use of maggot to mean a fanciful or whimsical thing derives from the folk belief that a whimsical or crotchety person had maggots in th…