mag|got

mag|got
mag|got «MAG uht», noun.
1. the legless larva of any one of various kinds of flies. Maggots usually live in decaying matter.
2. Figurative. a queer notion; whim: »

I thought she'd got some maggot in her head (George Eliot).

SYNONYM(S): fancy.
[Middle English magot; orin uncertain, perhaps related to Middle English maddock, ultimately < Old Icelandic]

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