maggot
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4.6
- noun
- /ˈmæɡət/
:
gusano
- I found a few maggots in the compost pile, indicating that the food scraps were decaying.
- maggots in meat
- maggots in wounds
- maggots hatch
I've jumped in huge garbage bins with maggots for food.
- I've jumped in huge garbage bins with maggots for food.
- It rots if it doesn't completely die and the the maggot will live inside that carrot.
- So I sprayed some alcohol into it and then maggots just start crawling out of it.
- And I'm laying down and I'm looking and I see maggots in the dirt.
- The tissue penicillin was not invented yet and until it became widespread, maggots were cutting edge medical treatment.
- It was like raw green beans and it was maggots.
- In fact, you could get organic life like maggots from iron and like inorganic compounds.
Examples
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After creeping forward about twelve inches, the maggots turned into dark blotches and vanished.
Fiction book (1998) -
The tissue penicillin was not invented yet and until it became widespread, maggots were cutting edge medical treatment.
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At the bottom of the cheese, a small, fat, white maggot crawled slowly over a blue vein.
Fiction book (1999) -
For, in the few pieces of only half-cooked meat on his plate, there were maggots.
Academic text (2017) -
So I sprayed some alcohol into it and then maggots just start crawling out of it.
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The tiny, wriggling maggots that later hatch spoil what would otherwise be a delectable crop.
Academic text (2001) -
The abandoned house was infested with maggots, swarming over the leftover food.
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When the farmer inspected the spoiled fruit, he discovered maggots crawling inside.
Synonyms
1
7.2
A small white worm that bores into apples and eats the inside
Idioms
- Offensive
Insult someone by saying 'maggot' to show they are worthless or lazy
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Maggot comes from an old word that meant a 'little worm', a tiny creature found in decaying things. That's why today a maggot is the soft, white larva you often see in rotting food or rubbish.