Maggot
noun
The young form of an insect, usually a fly, that is just an egg.
He overturned the rotten log and was greeted by a writhing mass of maggots.
Often appears as...
- maggot infestation
- fly maggot
noun
Someone who is seen as very despicable or contemptible.
He's a real maggot, stealing from his own grandmother!
Often appears as...
- act like a maggot
- cheap maggot
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
noun
The young form of an insect, usually a fly, that is just an egg.
He overturned the rotten log and was greeted by a writhing mass of maggots.
Often appears as...
- maggot infestation
- fly maggot
noun
Someone who is seen as very despicable or contemptible.
He's a real maggot, stealing from his own grandmother!
Often appears as...
- act like a maggot
- cheap maggot
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Decomposition Indicator
Maggots often appear on decaying matter, indicating something is dead or rotting.
When they opened the trash can, they found it teeming with maggots.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Imagery
The sight of maggots usually disgusts people; used to evoke strong emotions.
The mere thought of maggots made her skin crawl.
Pro Tip 3/3Fishing Bait
Maggots are commonly used as bait in fishing due to their wriggling motion.
He stocked his tackle box with hooks and maggots for the fishing trip.
Pro Tip 1/3Decomposition Indicator
Maggots often appear on decaying matter, indicating something is dead or rotting.
When they opened the trash can, they found it teeming with maggots.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Imagery
The sight of maggots usually disgusts people; used to evoke strong emotions.
The mere thought of maggots made her skin crawl.
Pro Tip 3/3Fishing Bait
Maggots are commonly used as bait in fishing due to their wriggling motion.
He stocked his tackle box with hooks and maggots for the fishing trip.
Pro Tip 1/3Decomposition Indicator
Maggots often appear on decaying matter, indicating something is dead or rotting.
When they opened the trash can, they found it teeming with maggots.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Imagery
The sight of maggots usually disgusts people; used to evoke strong emotions.
The mere thought of maggots made her skin crawl.
Pro Tip 3/3Fishing Bait
Maggots are commonly used as bait in fishing due to their wriggling motion.
He stocked his tackle box with hooks and maggots for the fishing trip.
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Video examples
Monitor Lizard...
clearing out all this of actual tissues just a bag of skin over those bones what would happen in the world what we're gonna do now is introduce some beetles domestic beetles and also knows louder beetles okay so time for the beetles let's go on they like the stage of try decay that's when they come in when the maggots ship and they should really strip any bits of sinew on those bones
Video examples
Cannibalism in the...
Rather than waste nutritious meat, the males then eat the dead cubs. Meanwhile, cannibalism is less common in birds than in other groups, but certain species will eat diseased or dead hatchlings as a way of disposing of the bodies before they can attract maggots.
Video examples
Joan Halifax: Compassion...
He said, "I'm out of here." He's going down the path. He sees something in the path. He looks, it's a dog, he drops to his knees. He sees that the dog has this big wound on its leg. The wound is just filled with maggots. He puts out his tongue
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Maggot Medicine PIPE...
deceased crocodile for instance you may not think of maggots as being especially well friendly you've probably never heard of anyone having a pet maggot for instance that's because maggots are just a transitional life stage for flies
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Burying Beetles PIPE...
this time-lapse shows how maggots can turn a dead mouse into a tasty meal and a throw rug we realize this footage has nothing to do with burying beetles but it's way cool like the maggots we couldn't help ourselves back to the
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Mighty Maggots PIPE The...
predators feed they often drag the carcass so mix helping a larger chunk of meat is in the area oh yeah yeah yeah jackpot chicken oh oh yeah yeah yes and larvae kind of smells all that maggots are
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EWWW! Maggots Eat...
the cause for concern is not his nether regions but in a leg injury in the past two days the flies have been in there they've laid their eggs and we've got some maggots I believe in there another
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What to do When There...
what do you do if like for example you wake up one morning and a fly has laid a bunch of eggs in your eyeball and there's maggots growing in them when our crew members you he's sitting there with
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Inside Python Infested...
was it was a horrible place I really don't like that it was knee-deep to waste the liquefied bat guano on top of it you've got maggots flies scorpions roaches bats Caves are dangerous places
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Camera Trap Captures...
wake up one morning and a fly has laid a bunch of eggs in your eyeball and there's maggots growing in them
Video examples
Monitor Lizard...
clearing out all this of actual tissues just a bag of skin over those bones what would happen in the world what we're gonna do now is introduce some beetles domestic beetles and also knows louder beetles okay so time for the beetles let's go on they like the stage of try decay that's when they come in when the maggots ship and they should really strip any bits of sinew on those bones
Video examples
Cannibalism in the...
Rather than waste nutritious meat, the males then eat the dead cubs. Meanwhile, cannibalism is less common in birds than in other groups, but certain species will eat diseased or dead hatchlings as a way of disposing of the bodies before they can attract maggots.
Video examples
Joan Halifax: Compassion...
He said, "I'm out of here." He's going down the path. He sees something in the path. He looks, it's a dog, he drops to his knees. He sees that the dog has this big wound on its leg. The wound is just filled with maggots. He puts out his tongue
Video examples
Maggot Medicine PIPE...
deceased crocodile for instance you may not think of maggots as being especially well friendly you've probably never heard of anyone having a pet maggot for instance that's because maggots are just a transitional life stage for flies
Video examples
Burying Beetles PIPE...
this time-lapse shows how maggots can turn a dead mouse into a tasty meal and a throw rug we realize this footage has nothing to do with burying beetles but it's way cool like the maggots we couldn't help ourselves back to the
Video examples
Mighty Maggots PIPE The...
predators feed they often drag the carcass so mix helping a larger chunk of meat is in the area oh yeah yeah yeah jackpot chicken oh oh yeah yeah yes and larvae kind of smells all that maggots are
Video examples
EWWW! Maggots Eat...
the cause for concern is not his nether regions but in a leg injury in the past two days the flies have been in there they've laid their eggs and we've got some maggots I believe in there another
Video examples
What to do When There...
what do you do if like for example you wake up one morning and a fly has laid a bunch of eggs in your eyeball and there's maggots growing in them when our crew members you he's sitting there with
Video examples
Inside Python Infested...
was it was a horrible place I really don't like that it was knee-deep to waste the liquefied bat guano on top of it you've got maggots flies scorpions roaches bats Caves are dangerous places
Video examples
Camera Trap Captures...
wake up one morning and a fly has laid a bunch of eggs in your eyeball and there's maggots growing in them
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Quote examples
Viola Davis
American Actress
I did everything to get food. I have stolen for food. I have jumped in huge garbage bins with maggots for food. I have befriended people in the neighborhood who I knew had mothers who cooked three meals a day for food, and I sacrificed a childhood for food and grew up in immense shame.
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Ashley Graham
American Model
My mom's parents were farmers, so every summer, my sisters and I would help out, hauling pipe and pulling maggots off the corn. We hated it, but it taught me the meaning of good hard work.
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Jonathan Raban
British Author
Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.
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Karen Blixen
Danish Author
I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.
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Zawe Ashton
English Actress
Good writing shouldn't be wrapped in cellophane. It should be open to the elements and full of maggots and it should be left to grow and deepen and fester.
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Bear Grylls
British Explorer
I've eaten sheep's eyes, the still hot meat from a zebra killed by a lion, and maggots which give you 70 calories to the ounce.
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Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
American Author
Not even a maggot is an it, and to refer to any animal in that manner is an affectation, an ignorant stab at science-speak.
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Karl Shapiro
American Poet
In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.
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George Clinton
American Musician
If you got maggots in your brain, everything you think is gonna be rotten.
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Dylan Thomas
Welsh Poet
But time has set its maggot on their track.
Quote examples
Viola Davis
American Actress
I did everything to get food. I have stolen for food. I have jumped in huge garbage bins with maggots for food. I have befriended people in the neighborhood who I knew had mothers who cooked three meals a day for food, and I sacrificed a childhood for food and grew up in immense shame.
Quote examples
Ashley Graham
American Model
My mom's parents were farmers, so every summer, my sisters and I would help out, hauling pipe and pulling maggots off the corn. We hated it, but it taught me the meaning of good hard work.
Quote examples
Jonathan Raban
British Author
Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.
Quote examples
Karen Blixen
Danish Author
I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.
Quote examples
Zawe Ashton
English Actress
Good writing shouldn't be wrapped in cellophane. It should be open to the elements and full of maggots and it should be left to grow and deepen and fester.
Quote examples
Bear Grylls
British Explorer
I've eaten sheep's eyes, the still hot meat from a zebra killed by a lion, and maggots which give you 70 calories to the ounce.
Quote examples
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
American Author
Not even a maggot is an it, and to refer to any animal in that manner is an affectation, an ignorant stab at science-speak.
Quote examples
Karl Shapiro
American Poet
In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.
Quote examples
George Clinton
American Musician
If you got maggots in your brain, everything you think is gonna be rotten.
Quote examples
Dylan Thomas
Welsh Poet
But time has set its maggot on their track.
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