maggot
Speech parts
1. maggot - Noun
2. maggot - Adjective
3. maggot - Verb
Meaning
The footless larva of any fly. See Larval.
A whim; an odd fancy.
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Examples
She would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the maggot broth of memory.
Living on the bodies of mammals, oxpeckers manage to get quite a varied diet. A maggot here, a tick there, a little sip of blood, perhaps a little tasty earwax.
Lo and behold! God made this starry wold, The maggot and the mold; lo and behold! He taught the grass contentment blade by blade, The sanctity of sameness in a shade.
Is that maggot meant to dominate us!? Are we meant to be her slave!?
Dead though the oil-palm may be, the maggot in it lives on.
We are all flesh and blood of the earth and so will return to the ground as rotten maggot encrusted relics.