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maggoting

maggoting is the present participle and gerund of maggot.

Meaning of maggot

Verb

maggot (third-person singular simple present maggots, present participle maggoting, simple past and past participle maggoted)

  1. (transitive) To rid (an animal) of maggots.
    • In the summer I had to get the sheep penned twice a day to maggot them and I needed a good dog.1950, Frederick Daniel Smith, Barbara Wilcox, Sold for Two Farthings, page 82

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Questions about maggoting

What is maggoting the present participle and gerund of?
Maggoting is the present participle and gerund of maggot.

Words near maggoting in the dictionary

  1. maggot-pies
  2. maggoted
  3. maggotier
  4. maggotiest
  5. maggotiness
  6. maggoting
  7. maggotish
  8. maggotless
  9. maggotlike
  10. maggotoria
  11. maggotorium

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Adapted from Wiktionary: maggoting (page history and authors); maggot (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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