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noun:- The legless, soft-bodied, wormlike larva of any of numerous flies regarding the order Diptera, often within rotting matter.
- Slang A despicable individual.
- An extravagant notion; a whim.
- A soft, legless larva of a fly or other dipterous insect, that often eats decomposing organic matter.
- a phrase of insult for a 'worthless' person, as if a bug.
- A whimsy or elegant.
- The footless larva of any fly. See larval.
- A whim; an odd fancy.
- 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.
- A whim; a crotchet; an odd fancy: mostly in such expressions as a maggot in one's mind.
- A frisky fellow; one fond of pranks.
- A whimsical impromptu melody or track.
- (See in addition cheese-maggot, meat-maggot.)
- the larva associated with the housefly and blowfly commonly within rotting organic matter
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