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▪ I. maggot1|ˈmægət|
Forms: 4, 6 magotte, 5 magat, maked, 5–6 mag(g)ote, 5–7, 9 magot, 6 mag(g)ette, magot(t)e, 7 magget, 6– maggot.
[Prob. related in some way to the synonymous ME. maðek maddock; but the exact formation is not easy to determine.
The 15th c. form maked (only once, in a glossary) may be a metathetic alteration of maðek, madek; but even if so, it may be only an individual blunder, and in any case it seems unlikely to be the source of the mod. form; more probably it represents an occasional pronunciation of maggot (cf. mod. Somerset macket for maggot2). Possibly the form mak, mawk (a variant of maddock) may have suggested a jocular application of the female nickname Maggot for Margaret (cf. maggot2 and the north midland dial. dick for a louse).]
1. A worm or grub of the kind formerly supposed to be generated by corruption; chiefly applied to the larva of a dipterous fly, esp. those of the cheese-fly and the flesh-fly or ‘blue-bottle’. red maggot: the larva (destructive to corn) of the wheat-midge.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. cxv. (1495) 856 Magottes ben wormes that brede of corrupt and rotyd moysture in flesshe. c1440Promp. Parv. 321 (s.v. Make) Winchester MS., Magat, may, or math, tarmus, cimex [Phillipps MS. and Pynson c 1500 have magot]. c1475Pict. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 767/5 Hic tarinus [read tarmus], hic simax [? = cimex], a maked. 1496Fysshynge w. Angle (1883) 29 In Juyll take..the codworme & maggotes vnto Mighelmas. c1515Cocke Lorell's B. 2 His hosen gresy upon his thyes, That place for magottes was very good. 1542Boorde Dyetary xiii, In High Alemen the chese whiche is full of magotes is called there the best chese. 1602Shakes. Ham. iv. iii. 24 Your worm is your onely Emperor for diet. We fat all creatures else to fat vs, and we fat our selfe for Magots. 1663Butler Hud. i. iii. 1276 But I deny they are the same, More then a Maggot and I am. 1698G. Thomas Pensilvania (1848) 22 Sheep..are generally free from those infectious Diseases..the Rot, Scab, or Maggots. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) VIII. 4 Caterpillars may be easily distinguished from worms or maggots, by the number of their feet. 1859Darwin Orig. Spec. xiv. (1873) 387 The larva or maggot of a fly, namely the Cecidomyia, producing asexually other larvæ. 1867F. Francis Angling i. (1880) 27 Maggots, or gentles, as they are more commonly called by metropolitan anglers. 1871Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (1879) II. xiii. 293, I jumped to the conclusion that these maggots had been spontaneously generated in the meat. 1886Times 18 Aug. 10/6 The wheat midge..produces the red maggots which so seriously damage the ripening ears of corn.
fig.1649G. Daniel Trinarch., Hen. IV ccclxxi, The Maggots of the Court Eate into favour; where they bred, they bite. 1780Cowper Progr. Err. 326 Ye pimps..Who fasten without mercy on the fair, And suck, and leave a crawling maggot there. 1809E. S. Barrett Setting Sun II. 125 The disgusting scene of the maggots of avarice, corruption, and meretricious influence preying on the state.
2. A whimsical or perverse fancy; a crotchet.
a1625Fletcher Women Pleased iii. iv, Are not you mad, my friend?.. Have not you Maggots in your braines? c1645Howell Lett. (1688) II. 328 There's a strange Magot hath got into their Brain. 1678Dryden Limberham v. i, What new maggot's this; you dare not, sure, be jealous! 1685S. Wesley (title) Maggots; or Poems on several subjects. 1693Shadwell Volunteers v. Wks. 1720 IV. 480 Blunt. Ha Fellow! what dost thou mean by a maggot? Hop. Sir, a little concern of mine in my way, a little whim, or so, Sir. 1717Prior Alma i. 400 Your Horace owns, he various writ, As wild or sober maggots bit. 1784Burns Common Pl. Bk. August, One who spends the hours..with Ossian, Shakspeare,..&c.; or, as the maggot takes him, a gun, a fiddle, or a song to make or mend. 1802Wolcot (P. Pindar) Pitt & his Statue Wks. 1812 IV. 501 Soon as a maggot crept into my head I caught a stump of pen and put it down. 1816Scott Antiq. xxxviii, For a' the nonsense maggots that ye whiles take into your head, ye are the maist wise and discreet o' a' our country gentles. 1898D. C. Murray Tales 255 She's got some maggot in her head about being loved for her own sake.
†b. Fancifulness. Obs. rare.
1701Collier M. Anton. etc. 257 A handsome young Lady..dress'd like Quality, but not to any degree of Magot or Curiosity.
c. Proverb.
1687Miege Gt. Fr. Dict. ii. s.v., I shall do it, when the magget bites. Je le ferai, quand il m'en prendra envie.
†d. Used in the names of many dance-tunes. Obs.
1716Dancing-Master (ed. 16) 179 Betty's Maggot. Ibid. 180 Mr. Beveridge's Maggot. Ibid. 191 Huntington's Maggot. Ibid. 203 Drapers Maggot. Ibid. 211 Mr. Lane's Maggot. Ibid. 224 Captain's Maggot. Ibid. 245 My Lord Byron's Maggot. Ibid. 258 Carpenters Maggot. Ibid. 264 George's Maggot [etc.]. 1719Ibid. II. 75 [ten similar titles].
3. A whimsical or capricious person.
1681T. Flatman Heraclitus Ridens No. 39 (1713) I. 259 Whose britch has most Fire in it, Harry's, or the Maggots and Whigs? a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Maggot, a whimsical Fellow, full of strange Fancies. 1725Bailey Erasm. Colloq. (1733) 230 You were as great a Maggot as any in the World when you were at Paris. 1735Dyche & Pardon Dict., Maggot,..a whimsical Fellow that is full of strange freakish Fancies.
4. attrib. and Comb., as maggot ostentation; maggot-eaten, (sense 2) maggot-headed, maggot-pated adjs.; maggot-boiler slang, a tallow-chandler; maggot-fishing, angling with a maggot for bait; † maggot-monger, a crotcheteer; † maggot-pate, a silly whimsical person; maggot-pimple, a form of acne (Acne punctata); maggot-race, a race between maggots or grubs.
1796Grose's Dict. Vulgar Tongue, *Maggot-boiler, a tallow chandler.
1621Burton Anat. Mel. Democr. to Rdr. (1651) 28 Going barefoot to..our Lady of Lauretts..to creep to those counterfeit and *Maggot-eaten Reliques.
1804Kentish Angler title-p., Worm, Minnow, Cadis, and *Maggot Fishing.
a1695Wood Life (O.H.S.) I. 273 A *maggot-headed person and humourous.
1660Bibliotheca Fanatica 2 Jeremy Ives, the gifted *Maggot-Monger.
1588Shakes. L.L.L. v. ii. 409 These summer flies, Haue blowne me full of *maggot ostentation.
1622Fletcher Sp. Curate iv. v, Did you thinke, had this man been rich,..He would have chosen such a Wolfe, a Cancker, A *Maggot-pate, to be his whole Executor.
1681T. Flatman Heraclitus Ridens No. 39 (1713) I. 259 The *Maggot-pated Whigs, who would..set us all on Fire at Home. 1687Kirby & Bishop Marrow of Astrol. i. 60 Nice conclusions, and maggot pated whimsies, to no purpose. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Bully-fop, a Maggot-pated, huffing, silly, ratling Fellow.
1822Good Study Med. II. 292 It is necessary to make the pressure harder than for the discharge of the mucus in the *maggot-pimple. 1856Mayne Expos. Lex., Maggot Pimple, a common name for the Varus punctatus.
1792W. Roberts Looker-on No. 28 (1794) I. 400 To run a *maggot-race with Jack Smoaky. 1810Sporting Mag. XXXV. 69 Lost fifty pounds with Jack Frolic on a maggot race.
▪ II. maggot2|ˈmægət|
[A use of Magote (Cursor M. 25455), a. F. Margot, pet name for Marguerite Margaret.]
†a. Applied as a proper name to (a) a magpie; (b) a sow. Obs.
b. A magpie (see also maggot-pie). Now dial.
1573, etc. [see maggot-pie]. 1608H. Clapham Errour on Left Hand 49 Maggot my sow. 1791Wolcot (P. Pindar) Magpie & Robin Wks. 1812 II. 475 All on a sudden, Maggot starts and stares. 1848Zoologist VI. 2290 The magpie is a ‘maggot’ [in Worcestershire]. |