maggoty
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7.9
- adjective
- /ˈmæɡəti/
:
infestado de larvas
- But their success in the game of love helps protect your favorite fruits and vegetables from becoming an icky, maggoty mess.
Examples
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It's skin is cracked, mottled and Gray like maggoty pork, with a tiny hair like cilia breaking through its body.
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After being left out in the sun for too long, the old bread became maggoty and was no longer safe to eat.
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Get your maggoty friends off of my mountain.
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I was getting used to the idea of dead, maggoty meat being art, now this.
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And now I again remember my grandpa telling me about the Italians eating maggoty cheese.
Blog text (28) -
Her eldest child spits out a piece of maggoty apple.
Academic text (2007) -
Once saw a man's brain after the worm had finished with him... maggoty cauliflower.
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How about a lightning bolt—just a little one—to incinerate this maggoty lump that used to be my brother?
Fiction book (1997) -
"In the film Battleship Potemkin by Eisenstein, the plot turns on the part where the sailors are served maggoty meat and they're forced to eat it," Masha explained to me.
Academic text (2011) -
The farmer discarded the maggoty vegetables that were infested with flies and no longer fresh.
Synonyms
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7.0
Rotting and smelling very bad
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6.2
Full of holes that worms or insects make
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9.9
Food spoiled and containing fly eggs or larvae
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3.8
Full of small insects like mosquitoes that bite or annoy you
Covered with small holes as if made by worms
Antonyms
How Rotten
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word maggoty comes from the simple English word maggot, which means 'a baby fly', plus the ending -y meaning 'full of'. So maggoty describes something 'full of maggots' or spoiled and infested, which makes the meaning easy to remember.