| 单词 | to go maggoty |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto go (also get) maggoty b. Australian, New Zealand, and British regional. Angry, bad-tempered; esp. in to go (also get) maggoty: to lose one's temper. ΚΠ 1890 S. S. Buckman John Darke's Sojourn in Cotteswolds vi. 49 Ah! he wur a sad maggotty cust'mer a'times. 1915 Wanganui (N.Z.) Herald 10 Sept. 8 Don't tell him I asked you to, as he would go maggetty. 1919 W. H. Downing Digger Dial. 33 Maggotty, angry. 1936 F. Sargeson Conversat. with Uncle 24 There was a shearer who used to go maggoty if a lamb wouldn't sit still. 1951 D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 31 I didn't need to, but I shaved every day and my old man made me maggotty by asking me one day, ‘Do you shave up or down?’ 1959 ‘D. Forrest’ Last Blue Sea 74 He's down there..going maggotty about doctors and Japs and boongs. 1977 B. Scott My Uncle Arch 63 Scotty got a bit maggoty about this. < as lemmas |
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