maggoty
Use Maggoty in a sentence
ə adjective
1.
infested with maggots, as food.
2.
Archaic. having queer notions; full of whims.
3.
Australian Slang. angry; bad-tempered.
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| —adj | |
| 1. | relating to, resembling, or ridden with maggots |
| 2. | slang very drunk |
| 3. | slang (Austral) annoyed, angry |
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Maggoty
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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maggot(t)y definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Example sentences
These poems occasional evoke a sticky, maggoty feeling.
During certain seasons, tomatoes are contaminated with field moths and in the markets the product becomes maggoty.
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