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Definition: Maggoty |
MaggotyAdjective1. Spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies; "flyblown meat"; "a sack of maggoty apricots". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "maggoty" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references) |
Synonym: MaggotySynonym: flyblown (adj). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: tunnelled (food & agriculture), worm-eaten. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Caprice | Adjective: capricious; erratic, eccentric, fitful, hysterical; full of whims; Noun: maggoty; inconsistent, fanciful, fantastic, whimsical, crotchety, kinky, particular, humorsome, freakish, skittish, wanton, wayward; contrary; captious; arbitrary; unconformable; penny wise and pound foolish; fickle; (irresolute); frivolous, sleeveless, giddy, volatile. |
Imbecility Folly | Weak headed, addle headed, puzzle headed, blunder headed, muddle headed, muddy headed, pig headed, beetle headed, buffle headed, chuckle headed, mutton headed, maggoty headed, grossheaded; beef headed, fat witted, fat-headed. |
Uncleanness | Decayed, moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid, rancid, weak, bad, gone bad, etercoral, lentiginous, touched, fusty, effete, reasty, rotten, corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty; putrid, putrefactive, putrescent, putrefied; saprogenic, saprogenous; purulent, carious, peccant; fecal, feculent; stercoraceous, excrementitious; scurfy, scurvy, impetiginous; gory, bloody; rotting; Verb: rotten as a pear, rotten as cheese. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Maggoty |
| English words defined with "maggoty": Flyblow, flyblown ♦ Maggotiness, Maggotish, Mawky. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "maggoty": magpie, mawkish. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Macbeth was a maggoty apple! (Educating Rita; writing credit: Willy Russell) | |
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| "Maggoty" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Maggoty" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
maggoty | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "maggoty"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | me çudi (whimsically), i krimbur (grubby, lousy, rotten, turned, wormy). (various references) | |
Arabic | كثير اليرقات, كثير النزوات. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | червясал (worm-eaten, wormy), капризен (capricious, erratic, faddish, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, fastidious, fickle, fractious, freakish, freaky, fretful, ill, inconstant, particular, petulant, skittish, tricksy, vagarious, vagrant, wayward, whimsical), пълен с личинки. (various references) | |
Czech | èervivý (wormy). (various references) | |
Danish | ormstukken (tunnelled, worm-eaten, wormy), ormaedt (tunnelled, worm-eaten, wormy), fuld af orm (tunnelled, worm-eaten, wormy). (various references) | |
Dutch | met boorgangen (tunnelled, worm-eaten, wormy), wormstekig (grubby, tunnelled, unsound, worm-eaten, wormy), doorvreten (tunnelled, worm-eaten, wormy), aangestoken (tunnelled, unsound, worm-eaten, wormy). (various references) | |
Finnish | madonsyömä (tunnelled, worm-eaten, wormy), toukkainen (grubby, tunnelled, worm-eaten, wormy), toukansyömä (tunnelled, worm-eaten, wormy). (various references) | |
French | véreux. (various references) | |
German | madig (tunnelled, worm-eaten, wormy), wurmig (tunnelled, worm-eaten, wormy). (various references) | |
Greek | σκωληκιάρησ, σκουληκιασμένοσ, ιδιότροποσ (capricious, cranky, crotchety, faddy, fastidious, flighty, pernickety, quirky, wanton, wayward, whimsical). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kukacos (grubby), szeszélyes (be capricious, capricious, changeful, erratic, fanciful, fickle, fitful, freakish, have a little finger ache, have moods, kinky, mercurial, moody, peevish, petulant, skittish, wanton, whimsical), nyüves. (various references) | |
Italian | verminoso (tunnelled, worm-eaten, wormy), bacato (tunnelled, worm-eaten, wormy). (various references) | |
Manx | er chroo (infested), crooagagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aggotymay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | verminoso (tunnelled, verminous, worm-eaten, wormy), picado de vermes (tunnelled, worm-eaten, wormy), idéia fixa (bee, complex, hobby, obsession), fantasista, carunchoso (addled, rotten), caprichoso (arbitrary, cantankerous, caprice, capricious, crotchety, difficult, extravagant, faddy, fanciful, fitful, freakish, Kittle, notional, peevish, skittish, temperamental, tidy, viewy, wayward, whim, whimsical), bichado (grubby). (various references) | |
Romanian | viermãnos (grubby, worm-eaten), cu toane (capricious, fanciful, fancy, Moody, wayward, whimsical, whimsy), apucat (frenzied, hag-ridden, hot-headed). (various references) | |
Russian | червивый (grubby, worm-eaten, wormy), с причудами. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pun larvi, crvljiv (grubby, worm-eaten, wormy). (various references) | |
Spanish | agusanado (grubby, tunnelled, worm-eaten, wormy). (various references) | |
Swedish | full av mask (tunnelled, worm-eaten, wormy). (various references) | |
Thai | เต็มไป"้วยหนอนแมลง. (various references) | |
Turkish | kurtlu (fidgety, grubby, mity, vermiculated, wormy). (various references) | |
Ukranian | червивий (cankered, grubby, worm-eaten, wormy), примхливий (arbitrary, capricious, choice, cranky, fanciful, fractious, freak, freakish, huffish, humorous, humous, inconstant, naughty, notional, notionate, skittish, whimsey, whimsical, whimsy), дивацький (freak). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | có những ý nghĩ kỳ quái. (various references) | |
Welsh | cynrhonllyd. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Maggoty" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amgot, maggat, Maggay, magget, maggit, magog, Magugu, morgoth, Mugot. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-g-m-o-t-y" | |
-1 letter: maggot. | |
-2 letters: atomy, magot, moggy. | |
-3 letters: agog, atom, gamy, goat, mayo, moat, ogam, toga, yoga. | |
-4 letters: ago, gag, gam, gat, gay, goa, got, goy, gym, mag, mat, may, moa, mog, mot, oat, tag, tam, tao, tog, tom, toy, yam, yom. | |
-5 letters: ag, am, at, ay, go, ma, mo, my, om, oy, ta, to, ya, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-g-m-o-t-y" | |
+1 letter: mystagog. | |
+2 letters: mystagogs, mystagogy. | |
+3 letters: mystagogue. | |
+4 letters: mystagogies, mystagogues. | |
+5 letters: gyromagnetic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 67 67 6F 74 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- --. --. --- - -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01100111 01100111 01101111 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a g g o t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 0067 0067 006F 0074 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47677373818691 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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