Definitions for maggoty

maggoty mag·got·y

Spelling: [mag-uh-tee]
IPA: /ˈmæg ə ti/

Maggoty is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 101 anagrams from letters in maggoty (aggmoty).

Definitions for maggoty

adjective

  1. infested with maggots, as food.
  2. Archaic. having queer notions; full of whims.
  3. Australian Slang. angry; bad-tempered.

Origin of maggoty

First recorded in 1660-70; maggot + -y1

Examples for maggoty

He had an ironplated stomach, but putrid and maggoty meat was too much for it.

And this is why maggoty mushrooms are so often found exposed for sale in summer.

We can't live on rum, maggoty bread, and foul water—that's sure.

They swore to starve rather than consume the maggoty provender.

Perhaps, dear, she has some interesting internal disease, or a maggoty brain.

But should you happen to be a little—well, maggoty, you positively do not have to tell me.

Do not eat food that is spoiled, smells or tastes badly or is flyblown or maggoty or full of bugs.

A keg of water and a maggoty ham—the latter exposed to the full sunlight of the tropics—was all the food in sight.

“I wonder if the blamed brutes are going to be too maggoty for our use after all,” he thought.

Buck Moncrossen was a big man with a shrunken, maggoty soul, and no conscience.

Word Value for maggoty
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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