英语词汇“maggot”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

maggot

/ˈmaɡət

noun

1A soft-bodied legless larva of a fly or other insect, found in decaying matter: the maggots attack the roots of the developing cabbages...

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.
This year flea beetles, white grubs, seed corn maggots and wireworms generated a lot of discussion.
Flea beetles and root maggots, the two major radish pests, can be avoided by placing floating row cover over the bed.

Synonyms

grub, larva;

caterpillar

2 archaic A whimsical or strange idea."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.

Phrases

act 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

单词	maggot
释义	maggot /ˈmaɡət / noun 1A soft-bodied legless larva of a fly or other insect, found in decaying matter: the maggots attack the roots of the developing cabbages... 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. This year flea beetles, white grubs, seed corn maggots and wireworms generated a lot of discussion. Flea beetles and root maggots, the two major radish pests, can be avoided by placing floating row cover over the bed. Synonyms grub, larva; caterpillar 2 archaic A whimsical or strange idea."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. Phrases act 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)
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