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maggoty, a.|ˈmægətɪ|
[f. maggot1 + -y.]
1. Full of maggots.
1727Bailey vol. II, Maggotty, full of Maggots. 1787Farley Lond. Art Cookery (ed. 4) 13 If it [cheese] be..full of holes, it will give reason to suspect that it is maggotty. 1844P. Parley's Ann. V. 293 Jack..was fed with maggoty biscuit and bilge water. 1867Morn. Star 9 Sept., A man was let off lightly for working up maggoty meat into polonies.
2. a. Full of whims and foolish fancies; freakish.
1678Norris Coll. Misc. (1699) 136 To pretend to work out a neat Scheme of Thoughts with a maggoty unsettled Head is..ridiculous. 1706Farquhar Recruiting Officer ii. ii, Then should I have some rogue of a builder... Transform my noble oaks and elms into cornices..to adorn some maggotty, new-fashioned bauble upon the Thames. 1707Reflex. upon Ridicule 304 He borrows an apish and magotty Carriage. 1816Kirby & Sp. Entomol. (1843) I. 126 The common saying that a whimsical person is maggoty..perhaps arose from the freaks the sheep have been observed to exhibit when infested by their bots. 1834–43Southey Doctor xxiv. (1862) 62 His son proved as maggoty as the father. 1864R. Reid Old Glasgow 381 A maggoty fancy.
b. Comb., as maggoty-headed, maggoty-pated adjs.
1667Wood Life 31 Aug., He [Aubrey] was a shiftless person, roving and magotie-headed. 1850N. & Q. 1st Ser. II. 173/2 A maggoty-pated fellow is often used to express a whimsical man.
3. Austral. and N.Z. Also maggotty. Angry, bad-tempered, esp. in phr. to go maggoty, to lose one's temper.
Dialectal evidence of this use is presented in Eng. Dial. Dict.
1919W. H. Downing Digger Dial. 33 Maggotty, angry. 1936F. Sargeson Conversations with Uncle 24 There was a shearer who used to go maggoty if a lamb wouldn't sit still. 1951D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 31, I didn't need to, but I shaved every day and my old man made me maggotty by asking me one day, ‘Do you shave up or down?’ 1959D. Forrest Last Blue Sea 74 He's down there..going maggotty about doctors and Japs and boongs. |