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n. The legless, soft-bodied, wormlike larva of any of various flies of the order Diptera, often found in decaying matter.

n. Slang A despicable person.

n. An extravagant notion; a whim.

n. A soft, legless larva of a fly or other dipterous insect, that often eats decomposing organic matter.

n. A term of insult for a 'worthless' person, as if a bug.

n. A whimsy or fancy.

n. The footless larva of any fly. See larval.

n. A whim; an odd fancy.

n. Properly, the larva of a fly or other insect: hence, in general, a grub; a worm: applied to footless larvæ, and especially to the larvæ of flies.

n. A whim; a crotchet; an odd fancy: mostly in such expressions as a maggot in one's head.

n. A frisky fellow; one given to pranks.

n. A whimsical impromptu melody or song.

n. (See also cheese-maggot, meat-maggot.)

n. the larva of the housefly and blowfly commonly found in decaying organic matter

"A rose by any other name might smell as sweet, but were it called a maggot, a schist or a cloaca, we would think of it quite differently."

grub   

processional maggots    beet leaf-maggot    corn-stalk maggot    seed-corn maggot    cabbage-root maggot    red maggot    rat-tail maggot   

mawkish    mawk   

larval   

whim    grub   

agate    faggot   

weevil    termite    grasshopper    grub    caterpillar    snail    vermin    moth    earthworm    worm