maggoty
/ˈmæɡəti/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.31 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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?)."
- "the Maggoty Turn of Fortune's Wheel"
- "In the book, what holds the sketchy characters, the narrative chunks, and the ideas together is West's maggoty wit—positioning himself halfway between contempt and fear, clinging to literary sophistication as if it were the Mother Church."
- "I want you to know that I think you are a maggoty mother-fucking son of a bitch"
Etymology
From maggot + -y.
Usage
Inflected Forms
more maggoty (comparative)
maggotier (comparative, rare)
most maggoty (superlative)
maggotiest (rare, superlative)
maggotty (alternative)
magotty (alternative)