maggot

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. A soft, legless larva of a fly or other dipterous insect, that often eats decomposing organic matter.
2. (derogatory, slang) A worthless person.
3. (archaic, dialectal) A whimsy or fancy.
4. (slang) A fan of the American metal band Slipknot.

Verb

To rid (an animal) of maggots.

Adj

Alternative form of maggoted (“drunk; intoxicated”).

Conceptes

larva

asticot

Sinònims

worm

🪱

grub

larva

caterpillar

🐛

insect

whim

caprice

mosquito larva

gentle

germ

kink

lice

louse

maggots

moodiness

putrid

quirk

rotten

vagary

whimsicalness

whimsy

wriggler

sprog

measuring worm

tetchiness

John Fletcher

wor n

bacteria

riceworm

beetle

🪲

crankiness

creepy-crawly

crotchet

crotchetiness

fancy

freak

Traduccions

asticot

Made

gusano

🪱

larva

larve

larva

made

verme

🪱

larva

ver

🪱

Larve

kurtçuk

larve

baco

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈmæɡət/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: magot

Cognat amb anglès antic: maþa

Cognat amb escocès: mathe

Cognat amb neerlandès: made

Cognat amb alemany: Made

Cognat amb suec: mask

In summary

From Middle English magot, magat, maked, probably a metathetic alteration of maddock, maðek (“worm", "maggot”), originally a diminutive form of a base represented by Old English maþa (Scots mathe), from Proto-West Germanic *maþō, from Proto-Germanic *maþô, from the Proto-Indo-European root *mat, which was used in insect names, equivalent to made + -ock. Near-cognates include Dutch made, German Made and Swedish mask, Icelandic maðkur (“worm, grub, maggot”).
The use of maggot to mean a fanciful or whimsical thing derives from the folk belief that a whimsical or crotchety person had maggots in their brain.