Definition of maggot in English:

maggot

noun ˈmaɡətˈmæɡət

1A soft-bodied legless larva of a fly or other insect, found in decaying matter.
the maggots attack the roots of the developing cabbages
Example sentencesExamples
- The changes that occur at metamorphosis can be rapid and dramatic, the classic examples being the metamorphosis of a caterpillar into an adult butterfly, a maggot into a fly, and a tadpole into a frog.
- Flea beetles and root maggots, the two major radish pests, can be avoided by placing floating row cover over the bed.
- It appears that these seed applied insecticides and liquid insecticides will be effective in protecting seeds from seed feeding insects such as wireworms and seedcorn maggots.
- One University of North Texas graduate student is using black fly maggots to compost that garbage.
- Root maggots in the roots of cabbage may retard the growth of the plant or it may wilt and even die.
- The Lonicera fly evolved as a hybrid of two existing U.S. species, the blueberry maggot and the snowberry maggot, according to the study.
- Even if most people don't care to eat black radish, cabbage maggots sure love it and without a row cover a marketable crop can be almost impossible to achieve.
- Although the risk of injury from seedling insects such as wireworms and seed corn maggots is reduced with a later planting, there is no post-emergence treatment for these insects.
- Centuries after the technique was pioneered, maggots are being used at Harrogate District Hospital in larvae therapy, to remove unhealthy tissue from wounds.
- Fruit flies, such as the apple maggot and the cherry fruit flies, are also common orchard pests.
- He wanted to know what we did to keep root maggots out of radishes.
- Rat-tailed maggots are the larvae of the drone fly and, in order to pupate the larvae, look for a dry place and start migrating.
- These greenish larvae are typical fly maggots in appearance; legless, broadest at the tail end and tapering to a point at the head, with hook-like mouthparts.
- There are three problems when growing garlic: drainage, gophers, and onion root maggots.
- This insect is the maggot of the eggs laid by sawflies or carpenter bees in the freshly-cut cane of the rose after pruning.
- Within days fly maggots are born and release an enzyme that decapitates their ant host.
- There are ways to deal with coddling moths and apple maggots.
- White root maggot may attack a portion of your crop.
- Because fruit and vegetable waste goes in the brown bin and sits there for up to two weeks, maggots and fruit flies end up in it.
- This year flea beetles, white grubs, seed corn maggots and wireworms generated a lot of discussion.
Synonyms
grub, larva
caterpillar
1. 1.1Fishing mass noun Bait consisting of a maggot or maggots.
  these sections produced a few good roach to maggot
  Example sentencesExamples
  I did intend using maggot as one of the main baits but thought pre-baiting regularly with them might encourage too many of the water's small perch into the swim.
  Try fishing on the drop with maggot for the roach or on the bottom with chopped worm for the skimmers.
  I am certain that more bream were caught on carp type baits rather than traditional bream baits like worm, caster or maggot.
  The closest you can get to fishing with a natural bait for these timid tench is with the humble maggot and redworm.
2archaic A whimsical or strange idea.
Example sentencesExamples
- "You know, Ruth," he said, "I don't wish to say anything against Isaac, and I don't want to make you uneasy, but you know as well as I do that he has a strange maggot in his brain.
- There's a strange maggot hath got into their brains, which possesseth them with a kind of vertigo, and it reigns in the pulpit more than anywhere else, for some of our preachmen are grown dog mad, there's a worm got into their tongues as well as their heads.
Synonyms
impulse, urge, notion, fancy, whimsy, foible, idea, caprice, conceit, vagary, kink, megrim, crotchet, craze, fad, passion, inclination, bent

Phrases

act the maggot

informal Behave in a foolishly playful way.
we'd all walk in a line behind him, acting the maggot, you know, imitating him
Example sentencesExamples
- He wasn't alone: the Dáil had an end-of-term feel about it, and there was a goodish amount of giddiness and a lot of general acting the maggot.
- Mud, rain, music, people acting the maggot - in fact there was only one thing missing from this year's festival, sadly - the late great John Peel.
- Are you going to act the maggot, and get yourself in trouble?
- If you want to ‘act the maggot’ in Castlebar you are going to end up in court.
- I'm not being lazy, I promise - my computer is seriously acting the maggot.

Origin

Late Middle English: perhaps an alteration of dialect maddock, from Old Norse mathkr, of Germanic origin.

Around 2003 a photograph circulated on the internet purporting to show a man with maggots in the brain. The maggots were just an urban myth—one story said that the condition resulted from eating the Japanese raw-fish dish sashimi; another that it resulted from swimming in water where parasitic fish could enter the urinary tract (the candiru, a small catfish of the Amazon basin, does occasionally do this). The scare was new, but not the idea. When the Gothic novelist Charlotte Dacre published Zofloya, or the Moor in 1806, with its plot of murder and a Satanic lover, a reviewer pronounced that she must be ‘afflicted with the dismal malady of maggots in the brain’. Maggot is probably an alteration of the earlier word maddock, meaning ‘maggot’ or ‘earthworm’, influenced by Maggot or Magot, pet forms of the names Margery or Margaret. Compare pie

Rhymes

braggart, faggot (US fagot)

Definition of maggot in US English:

maggot

nounˈmaɡətˈmæɡət

1A soft-bodied legless larva, especially that of a fly found in decaying matter.
Example sentencesExamples
- Centuries after the technique was pioneered, maggots are being used at Harrogate District Hospital in larvae therapy, to remove unhealthy tissue from wounds.
- There are ways to deal with coddling moths and apple maggots.
- There are three problems when growing garlic: drainage, gophers, and onion root maggots.
- This year flea beetles, white grubs, seed corn maggots and wireworms generated a lot of discussion.
- The Lonicera fly evolved as a hybrid of two existing U.S. species, the blueberry maggot and the snowberry maggot, according to the study.
- It appears that these seed applied insecticides and liquid insecticides will be effective in protecting seeds from seed feeding insects such as wireworms and seedcorn maggots.
- He wanted to know what we did to keep root maggots out of radishes.
- Even if most people don't care to eat black radish, cabbage maggots sure love it and without a row cover a marketable crop can be almost impossible to achieve.
- Flea beetles and root maggots, the two major radish pests, can be avoided by placing floating row cover over the bed.
- Root maggots in the roots of cabbage may retard the growth of the plant or it may wilt and even die.
- These greenish larvae are typical fly maggots in appearance; legless, broadest at the tail end and tapering to a point at the head, with hook-like mouthparts.
- Rat-tailed maggots are the larvae of the drone fly and, in order to pupate the larvae, look for a dry place and start migrating.
- The changes that occur at metamorphosis can be rapid and dramatic, the classic examples being the metamorphosis of a caterpillar into an adult butterfly, a maggot into a fly, and a tadpole into a frog.
- Because fruit and vegetable waste goes in the brown bin and sits there for up to two weeks, maggots and fruit flies end up in it.
- White root maggot may attack a portion of your crop.
- This insect is the maggot of the eggs laid by sawflies or carpenter bees in the freshly-cut cane of the rose after pruning.
- Within days fly maggots are born and release an enzyme that decapitates their ant host.
- Fruit flies, such as the apple maggot and the cherry fruit flies, are also common orchard pests.
- Although the risk of injury from seedling insects such as wireworms and seed corn maggots is reduced with a later planting, there is no post-emergence treatment for these insects.
- One University of North Texas graduate student is using black fly maggots to compost that garbage.
Synonyms
grub, larva
1. 1.1Fishing Bait consisting of a maggot or maggots.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Try fishing on the drop with maggot for the roach or on the bottom with chopped worm for the skimmers.
  I am certain that more bream were caught on carp type baits rather than traditional bream baits like worm, caster or maggot.
  I did intend using maggot as one of the main baits but thought pre-baiting regularly with them might encourage too many of the water's small perch into the swim.
  The closest you can get to fishing with a natural bait for these timid tench is with the humble maggot and redworm.
2archaic A whimsical fancy.
Example sentencesExamples
- "You know, Ruth," he said, "I don't wish to say anything against Isaac, and I don't want to make you uneasy, but you know as well as I do that he has a strange maggot in his brain.
- There's a strange maggot hath got into their brains, which possesseth them with a kind of vertigo, and it reigns in the pulpit more than anywhere else, for some of our preachmen are grown dog mad, there's a worm got into their tongues as well as their heads.
Synonyms
impulse, urge, notion, fancy, whimsy, foible, idea, caprice, conceit, vagary, kink, megrim, crotchet, craze, fad, passion, inclination, bent

Origin

Late Middle English: perhaps an alteration of dialect maddock, from Old Norse mathkr, of Germanic origin.

单词	maggot
释义	Definition of maggot in English: maggot noun ˈmaɡətˈmæɡət 1A soft-bodied legless larva of a fly or other insect, found in decaying matter. the maggots attack the roots of the developing cabbages Example sentencesExamples The changes that occur at metamorphosis can be rapid and dramatic, the classic examples being the metamorphosis of a caterpillar into an adult butterfly, a maggot into a fly, and a tadpole into a frog. Flea beetles and root maggots, the two major radish pests, can be avoided by placing floating row cover over the bed. It appears that these seed applied insecticides and liquid insecticides will be effective in protecting seeds from seed feeding insects such as wireworms and seedcorn maggots. One University of North Texas graduate student is using black fly maggots to compost that garbage. Root maggots in the roots of cabbage may retard the growth of the plant or it may wilt and even die. The Lonicera fly evolved as a hybrid of two existing U.S. species, the blueberry maggot and the snowberry maggot, according to the study. Even if most people don't care to eat black radish, cabbage maggots sure love it and without a row cover a marketable crop can be almost impossible to achieve. Although the risk of injury from seedling insects such as wireworms and seed corn maggots is reduced with a later planting, there is no post-emergence treatment for these insects. Centuries after the technique was pioneered, maggots are being used at Harrogate District Hospital in larvae therapy, to remove unhealthy tissue from wounds. Fruit flies, such as the apple maggot and the cherry fruit flies, are also common orchard pests. He wanted to know what we did to keep root maggots out of radishes. Rat-tailed maggots are the larvae of the drone fly and, in order to pupate the larvae, look for a dry place and start migrating. These greenish larvae are typical fly maggots in appearance; legless, broadest at the tail end and tapering to a point at the head, with hook-like mouthparts. There are three problems when growing garlic: drainage, gophers, and onion root maggots. This insect is the maggot of the eggs laid by sawflies or carpenter bees in the freshly-cut cane of the rose after pruning. Within days fly maggots are born and release an enzyme that decapitates their ant host. There are ways to deal with coddling moths and apple maggots. White root maggot may attack a portion of your crop. Because fruit and vegetable waste goes in the brown bin and sits there for up to two weeks, maggots and fruit flies end up in it. This year flea beetles, white grubs, seed corn maggots and wireworms generated a lot of discussion. Synonyms grub, larva caterpillar 1.1Fishing mass noun Bait consisting of a maggot or maggots. these sections produced a few good roach to maggot Example sentencesExamples I did intend using maggot as one of the main baits but thought pre-baiting regularly with them might encourage too many of the water's small perch into the swim. Try fishing on the drop with maggot for the roach or on the bottom with chopped worm for the skimmers. I am certain that more bream were caught on carp type baits rather than traditional bream baits like worm, caster or maggot. The closest you can get to fishing with a natural bait for these timid tench is with the humble maggot and redworm. 2archaic A whimsical or strange idea. Example sentencesExamples "You know, Ruth," he said, "I don't wish to say anything against Isaac, and I don't want to make you uneasy, but you know as well as I do that he has a strange maggot in his brain. There's a strange maggot hath got into their brains, which possesseth them with a kind of vertigo, and it reigns in the pulpit more than anywhere else, for some of our preachmen are grown dog mad, there's a worm got into their tongues as well as their heads. Synonyms impulse, urge, notion, fancy, whimsy, foible, idea, caprice, conceit, vagary, kink, megrim, crotchet, craze, fad, passion, inclination, bent Phrases act the maggot informal Behave in a foolishly playful way. we'd all walk in a line behind him, acting the maggot, you know, imitating him Example sentencesExamples He wasn't alone: the Dáil had an end-of-term feel about it, and there was a goodish amount of giddiness and a lot of general acting the maggot. Mud, rain, music, people acting the maggot - in fact there was only one thing missing from this year's festival, sadly - the late great John Peel. Are you going to act the maggot, and get yourself in trouble? If you want to ‘act the maggot’ in Castlebar you are going to end up in court. I'm not being lazy, I promise - my computer is seriously acting the maggot. Origin Late Middle English: perhaps an alteration of dialect maddock, from Old Norse mathkr, of Germanic origin. Around 2003 a photograph circulated on the internet purporting to show a man with maggots in the brain. The maggots were just an urban myth—one story said that the condition resulted from eating the Japanese raw-fish dish sashimi; another that it resulted from swimming in water where parasitic fish could enter the urinary tract (the candiru, a small catfish of the Amazon basin, does occasionally do this). The scare was new, but not the idea. When the Gothic novelist Charlotte Dacre published Zofloya, or the Moor in 1806, with its plot of murder and a Satanic lover, a reviewer pronounced that she must be ‘afflicted with the dismal malady of maggots in the brain’. Maggot is probably an alteration of the earlier word maddock, meaning ‘maggot’ or ‘earthworm’, influenced by Maggot or Magot, pet forms of the names Margery or Margaret. Compare pie Rhymes braggart, faggot (US fagot) noun.1 phr. Definition of maggot in US English: maggot nounˈmaɡətˈmæɡət 1A soft-bodied legless larva, especially that of a fly found in decaying matter. Example sentencesExamples Centuries after the technique was pioneered, maggots are being used at Harrogate District Hospital in larvae therapy, to remove unhealthy tissue from wounds. There are ways to deal with coddling moths and apple maggots. There are three problems when growing garlic: drainage, gophers, and onion root maggots. This year flea beetles, white grubs, seed corn maggots and wireworms generated a lot of discussion. The Lonicera fly evolved as a hybrid of two existing U.S. species, the blueberry maggot and the snowberry maggot, according to the study. It appears that these seed applied insecticides and liquid insecticides will be effective in protecting seeds from seed feeding insects such as wireworms and seedcorn maggots. He wanted to know what we did to keep root maggots out of radishes. Even if most people don't care to eat black radish, cabbage maggots sure love it and without a row cover a marketable crop can be almost impossible to achieve. Flea beetles and root maggots, the two major radish pests, can be avoided by placing floating row cover over the bed. Root maggots in the roots of cabbage may retard the growth of the plant or it may wilt and even die. These greenish larvae are typical fly maggots in appearance; legless, broadest at the tail end and tapering to a point at the head, with hook-like mouthparts. Rat-tailed maggots are the larvae of the drone fly and, in order to pupate the larvae, look for a dry place and start migrating. The changes that occur at metamorphosis can be rapid and dramatic, the classic examples being the metamorphosis of a caterpillar into an adult butterfly, a maggot into a fly, and a tadpole into a frog. Because fruit and vegetable waste goes in the brown bin and sits there for up to two weeks, maggots and fruit flies end up in it. White root maggot may attack a portion of your crop. This insect is the maggot of the eggs laid by sawflies or carpenter bees in the freshly-cut cane of the rose after pruning. Within days fly maggots are born and release an enzyme that decapitates their ant host. Fruit flies, such as the apple maggot and the cherry fruit flies, are also common orchard pests. Although the risk of injury from seedling insects such as wireworms and seed corn maggots is reduced with a later planting, there is no post-emergence treatment for these insects. One University of North Texas graduate student is using black fly maggots to compost that garbage. Synonyms grub, larva 1.1Fishing Bait consisting of a maggot or maggots. Example sentencesExamples Try fishing on the drop with maggot for the roach or on the bottom with chopped worm for the skimmers. I am certain that more bream were caught on carp type baits rather than traditional bream baits like worm, caster or maggot. I did intend using maggot as one of the main baits but thought pre-baiting regularly with them might encourage too many of the water's small perch into the swim. The closest you can get to fishing with a natural bait for these timid tench is with the humble maggot and redworm. 2archaic A whimsical fancy. Example sentencesExamples "You know, Ruth," he said, "I don't wish to say anything against Isaac, and I don't want to make you uneasy, but you know as well as I do that he has a strange maggot in his brain. There's a strange maggot hath got into their brains, which possesseth them with a kind of vertigo, and it reigns in the pulpit more than anywhere else, for some of our preachmen are grown dog mad, there's a worm got into their tongues as well as their heads. Synonyms impulse, urge, notion, fancy, whimsy, foible, idea, caprice, conceit, vagary, kink, megrim, crotchet, craze, fad, passion, inclination, bent Origin Late Middle English: perhaps an alteration of dialect maddock, from Old Norse mathkr, of Germanic origin.
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