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magotty

magotty is the obsolete spelling of maggoty.

Meaning of maggoty

Adjective

maggoty (comparative more maggoty or (rare) maggotier, superlative most maggoty or (rare) maggotiest)

  1. (literally) Infested with or partially eaten by maggots; flyblown.
    • He pilots his disreputable father-in-law through the maggotier parts of the Big Apple, tries out unsuccessfully for a job as gorilla, pulls off an unconvincing fraud (surely Gothamites don’t hand over against an uncleared cheque?).1980, The Times Literary Supplement, London: The Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 470, column 3
    Synonyms:
    flyblown, worm-eaten
  2. (dated, figuratively) Full of whims; capricious; freakish.
    • the Maggoty Turn of Fortune's Wheel1694, Nicolas Rémond des Cours, unknown translator, The True Conduct of Persons of Quality
    Synonyms:
    maggotish
  3. (derogatory, figuratively) Unpleasant or bad-tempered.
    • I want you to know that I think you are a maggoty mother-fucking son of a bitch1975, Robert Lipscomb Duncan, Dragons at the Gate

Forms of magotty

comparativemore magotty
superlativemost magotty

Phrases with magotty

Questions about magotty

What is magotty the obsolete spelling of?
Magotty is the obsolete spelling of maggoty.

Words near magotty in the dictionary

  1. Magos
  2. magosha
  3. magoshas
  4. magot
  5. magots
  6. magotty
  7. magotty bay bean
  8. Magowan
  9. Magpantay
  10. Magpantays
  11. Magpet

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Adapted from Wiktionary: magotty (page history and authors); maggoty (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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