maggoty

[mag-uh-tee]

adjective

1. infested with maggots, as food.

2. Archaic.,  having queer notions; full of whims.

3. Australian Slang.,  angry; bad-tempered.

maggoty

/ ˈmæɡətɪ /

adjective

1. relating to, resembling, or ridden with maggots

2. slang,  very drunk

3. slang,  annoyed, angry

Word History and Origins

Origin of maggoty¹

First recorded in 1660–70; maggot + -y ¹

Example Sentences

I stand in one place in a grocery and look at maggoty cabbages for fifteen minutes while he tries to decide what to do.

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As snakes, cannibals and maggoty supernatural beings rattle around the frame, “Jungle Cruise” exhibits a blatantly faux exoticism that feels as flat as the forced frisson between its two leads.

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Another paper put it this way: “An old maid is one of the most cranky, ill-natured, maggoty, peevish, conceited, disagreeable, hypocritical, fretful, noisy, gibing, canting, censorious, out-of-the-way, never-to-be-pleased, good-for-nothing creatures.”

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“I was having a maggoty nightmare about those Hopper people,” she said.

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“Isle of Dogs” takes off as Atari searches for Spots, a heroic quest that leads him to a canine penal colony, a wasteland where mysteriously sick dogs fight over morsels gleaned from rancid, maggoty garbage.

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