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maggot
noun 
  1. A fly larva that eats decompose, decomposing flesh.
  2. (obsolete) A whimsy or fancy.
Mr. Beveridge's Maggot, an old country dance http://www.izaak.unh.edu/nhltmd/indexes/dancingmaster/Dance/Play4199.htm.
Translations: 
  • Dutch: made
  • French: asticot
  • German: Wurm
  • Spanish: gusano
Etymology: Middle English magot, magotte, probably an Anglo-Norman alteration of maddock, originally a diminutive form of a base represented by Old English maía (Scots mathe), from common Germanic root
  • mathon-, from the Proto-Indo-European root
  • math-, which was used in insect names. Near-cognates include Dutch made, German Made and Swedish mask. The use of maggot to mean a fanciful or whimsical thing derives from the folk belief that a whimsical or crotchety person had maggots in his or her brain.: Are you not mad, my friend? What time o' th' moon is't? <br> Have not you maggots in your brain? <br> &mdash; w:John Fletcher (playwright), John Fletcher, Women Pleased (1620), III.iv.


     
 
  

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