maggotty

English

Adjective

maggotty (comparative more maggotty, superlative most maggotty)

  1. Alternative spelling of maggoty.
    • 1653, Francis Rabelais [i.e., François Rabelais], translated by [Thomas Urquhart, Peter Anthony Motteux], “Of the Disposition of the People This Year”, in The Works of Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick: Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds, and Sayings of Gargantua, and His Sonne Pantagruel. […], London: […] [Thomas Ratcliffe and Edward Mottershead] for Richard Baddeley, […], →OCLC; republished in volume II, London: […] Navarre Society […], [1948], →OCLC, 5th book, page 431:
      Those who belong to Madam Luna, as Hawkers of Almanacks and Pamphlets, Huntsmen, Ostridge-Catchers, Falkoners, Couriers, Salt carriers, Lunaticks, Maggotty Fools, Crackbrain’d Coxcombs, […] will not long stay in a place this Year.
    • 1719, [Mary Kettilby], compiler, A Collection of Receipts in Cookery, Physick and Surgery. […] (A Collection of Above Three Hundred Receipts in Cookery, Physick and Surgery; […]; 2nd edition, part II), London: […] Richard Wilkin, […], →OCLC, page 35:
      Raſberry Jamm. YOU are to infuſe your Rasberries as before, but muſt be very careful to pick your Fruit from the dead and maggotty ones; […]
    • 1783, John Farley, “Directions for the Proper Choice of Different Kinds of Provisions”, in The London Art of Cookery, and Housekeeper’s Complete Assistant. […], London: […] John Fielding, […] and J[ames] Scatcherd and J. Whitaker, […], →OCLC, page 14:
      OBSERVE the coat of your cheeſe before you purchaſe it; for if it be old, with a rough and ragged coat, or dry at top, you may expect to find little worms or mites in it. If it be moiſt, ſpongy, or full of holes, it will give reaſon to ſuſpect that it is maggotty.
    • 1823, John Neal, chapter VII, in Seventy-Six. […], volume III, […] London: […] G. and W. B. Whittaker, […], →OCLC, pages 231–232:
      If Tarleton should fall in our way, remember who used to starve us, while we were prisoners; and, curse us, and beat us; and, leave us rotting in filth and nastiness, with bread full of pounded glass, and maggotty meat, that made the water hiss, when it touched it.
    • 1986 December, Jo Clayton, “Back to the Canyon”, in Skeen’s Leap (DAW Book Collectors No. 692; The Skeen Trilogy, 1), New York, N.Y.: DAW Books, →ISBN, page 10:
      As darkness settled thick over the hill country, she slowed to a swinging walk, annoyed by the mischance that chased her here, the Mala Fortuna in her slipstream—Mala, Mala, go haunt some other fool a while. Ruins, every inch of this maggotty world. The smell of them too rich, the challenge too ripe.
    • 2012, Jeanne Willis, “Earthquake”, in Dinosaur Olympics (Downtown Dinosaurs), London: Piccadilly Press, →ISBN, pages 85–86:
      Since the day before, the two of them had secretly become friends and as Darwin couldn’t face the maggotty meat his carnivorous captors provided, Dippy had been sneaking him vegetarian snacks.

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