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maggoty
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective maggoty has 1 sense
- maggoty(s = adj.all) flyblown - spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies; "flyblown meat"; "a sack of maggoty apricots" Derived form noun maggot1
CIDE DICTIONARY
maggoty, a.
- Infested with maggots. [1913 Webster]
- Full of whims; capricious. Norris. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
maggoty
Gothic, abnormal, anomalous, arbitrary, bad, barfy, baroque, bizarre, blasted, blighted, blown, brackish, brain-born, capricious, cloying, crank, crankish, cranky, crappy, crotchety, despoiled, deviant, deviative, different, disgusting, divergent, dotty, dream-built, eccentric, erratic, exceptional, extravagant, fanciful, fancy-born, fancy-built, fancy-woven, fantasied, fantasque, fantastic, fecal, feculent, fetid, fey, filthy, flaky, florid, flyblown, foul, freakish, frowsty, frowsy, frowzy, fulsome, funny, fusty, gloppy, grotesque, gunky, harebrained, high, humorsome, icky, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, irregular, kinky, kooky, malodorous, mawkish, mephitic, mildewed, moldering, moldy, moody, moth-eaten, motiveless, mucky, musty, nasty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, notional, noxious, nutty, odd, oddball, odious, offensive, ordurous, outlandish, overripe, peculiar, petulant, poisonous, preposterous, puky, putrid, queer, quirky, rancid, rank, ravaged, rebarbative, repulsive, rococo, rotten, scabby, screwball, screwy, scummy, scurfy, shitty, sickening, singular, slabby, slimy, sloppy, sloshy, sludgy, slushy, smutted, smutty, spoiled, sposhy, stinking, strange, temperamental, twisted, unconventional, unnatural, unreasonable, unrestrained, vagarious, vagrant, vile, vomity, wacky, wanton, wayward, weevily, whimsical, wild, worm-eaten, wormy, yecchy, yuckyROGET THESAURUS
maggoty
Caprice
N caprice, fancy, humor, whim, whimsy, whimsey, whimwham, crotchet, capriccio, quirk, freak, maggot, fad, vagary, prank, fit, flimflam, escapade, boutade, wild-goose chase, capriciousness, kink, capricious, erratic, eccentric, fitful, hysterical, full of whims, maggoty, inconsistent, fanciful, fantastic, whimsical, crotchety, kinky, particular, humorsome, freakish, skittish, wanton, wayward, contrary, captious, arbitrary, unconformable, penny wise and pound foolish, fickle, frivolous, sleeveless, giddy, volatile, by fits and starts, without rhyme or reason, nil fuit unquain sic inipar sibi, the deuce is in him.Uncleanness
N uncleanness, impurity, immundity, immundicity, impurity, defilement, contamination, defoedation, soilure, soiliness, abomination, leaven, taint, tainture, fetor, decay, putrescence, putrefaction, corruption, mold, must, mildew, dry rot, mucor, rubigo, slovenry, slovenliness, squalor, dowdy, drab, slut, malkin, slattern, sloven, slammerkin, slammock, slummock, scrub, draggle-tail, mudlark, dust-man, sweep, beast, dirt, filth, soil, slop, dust, cobweb, flue, smoke, soot, smudge, smut, grit, grime, raff, sossle, sozzle, sordes, dregs, grounds, lees, argol, sediment, settlement heeltap, dross, drossiness, mother, precipitate, scoriae, ashes, cinders, recrement, slag, scum, froth, hogwash, ditchwater, dishwater, bilgewater, rinsings, cheeseparings, sweepings, offscourings, outscourings, off scum, caput mortuum, residuum, sprue, fecula, clinker, draff, scurf, scurfiness, exuviae, morphea, fur, furfur, dandruff, tartar, riffraff, vermin, louse, flea, bug, chinch, mud, mire, quagmire, alluvium, silt, sludge, slime, slush, slosh, sposh, spawn, offal, gurry, lientery, garbage, carrion, excreta, slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration, lienteria, faeces, feces, excrement, ordure, dung, crap, shit, sewage, sewerage, muck, coprolite, guano, manure, compost, dunghill, colluvies, mixen, midden, bog, laystall, sink, privy, jakes, toilet, john, head, cess, cesspool, sump, sough, cloaca, latrines, drain, sewer, common sewer, Cloacina, dust hole, sty, pigsty, lair, den, Augean stable, sink of corruption, slum, rookery, dirty, filthy, grimy, unclean, impure, soiled, not to be handled with kid gloves, dusty, snuffy, smutty, sooty, smoky, thick, turbid, dreggy, slimy, mussy, slovenly, untidy, messy, uncleanly, unkempt, sluttish, dowdy, draggle-tailed, uncombed, unscoured, unswept, unwiped, unwashed, unstrained, unpurified, squalid, lutose, slammocky, slummocky, sozzly, nasty, coarse, foul, offensive, abominable, beastly, reeky, reechy, fetid, decayed, moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid, rancid, weak, bad, gone bad, etercoral, lentiginous, touched, fusty, effete, reasty, rotten, corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty, putrid, putrefactive, putrescent, putrefied, saprogenic, saprogenous, purulent, carious, peccant, fecal, feculent, stercoraceous, excrementitious, scurfy, scurvy, impetiginous, gory, bloody, rotting, rotten as a pear, rotten as cheese, crapulous, gross, fimetarious, fimicolous, they that touch pitch will be defiled.
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