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maggots
noun
Plural of maggot
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The word 'maggots' is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to the small, worm-like larvae of certain flies, often found in decaying organic matter. Example: The apple was left on the counter for too long and now it's covered in maggots.
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The children in a nearby school were treated to the sight of broken coffins, bones and "slimy matter, alive with maggots".
Grains are infested by vermin, fruit and vegetables get bruised, meats are attacked by flies and maggots, eggs break and milk goes sour.In rich countries, packaging and handling has vastly reduced this sort of waste.
Some were associated with negative feelings: a spider on a man's face (fear), an open wound with maggots (disgust) and a man being beaten up by a mob (anger).
The corpse had already been there a few days: it was seething with maggots hatched from eggs laid in the putrefying, stinking flesh.The man's death had been a violent one.
Turns three to five take their lead from the classic sequence of high-speed esses of Maggots, Becketts and Chapel corners at Silverstone in Britain.
Only hypocrites wear clothes; fiery serpents and fat maggots are often the only attire.
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It's amazing having a great girl singer calling you a scumbag and a maggot, but at the end the song turns into a high-stepping waltz.
He was sent before the standards board 27 times in his four-year stint on the council, but escaped without censure on all but one occasion, when he compared a council solicitor to a maggot.
Bitten by a venomous snake that had left the real Steve Irwin out in the bush-grass, dead as a maggot.
He describes the rise of artificial intelligence as "maggot therapy: it consumes only those portions [of the job market] that are no longer human, restoring us to health .Likewise the game played by Deep Blue serves to identify the whereabouts of creativity in chess, he argues.
We're sort of in it together and I'll love him always.Where is the literary culture more interesting, America or Britain?Do you have a witness protection programme?"Maggot" by Paul Muldoon is published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in America and Faber and Faber in Britain.
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