maggot

Etymology
From, , probably metathetic alteration of , originally a diminutive form of a base represented by 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬), from , from common , from the  root , which was used in insect names, equivalent to. Near-cognates include 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

The use of maggot to mean a fanciful or whimsical thing derives from the folk belief that a whimsical or crotchety person had maggots in their brain.

Noun

 * 1) A soft, legless larva of a fly or other dipterous insect, that often eats decomposing organic matter.
 * 2)  A worthless person.
 * 3)  A whimsy or fancy.
 * 4)  A fan of the American metal band.
 * 1)  A whimsy or fancy.
 * 2)  A fan of the American metal band.
 * 1)  A fan of the American metal band.
 * 1)  A fan of the American metal band.
 * 1)  A fan of the American metal band.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic: نَغَفَة
 * Armenian:
 * Atikamekw: okowew
 * Bahnar: hrai
 * Belarusian: апа́рыш
 * Brunei Malay: giuk, ulat
 * Bulgarian: личинка
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:, ,
 * Chepang: पेः
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Cornish: kontronen
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: maddike
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: muŝido
 * Estonian: vagel
 * Finnish:, kärpäsentoukka
 * French: ,
 * Galician: careixa,, bichoco
 * Georgian:
 * German:, Fleischmade
 * Gothic: 𐌼𐌰𐌸𐌰
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: εὐλή
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: cruimh
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese:, ウジ
 * Javanese:
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: 구더기
 * Latvian:
 * Luxembourgish: Mued
 * Malay: belatung, berenga
 * Manchu: ᠶᡝᠶᡝ
 * Manx: crooag
 * Mi'kmaq: gulpatgij
 * Middle English: maddok
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:, ,
 * Nahuatl: nacaocuilin
 * Navajo: chʼosh
 * Norman: magot
 * Norwegian:
 * Ojibwe: ookwe
 * Ottoman Turkish: قورت
 * Paiwan: tikay
 * Polish:, , , mada
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * S'gaw Karen: လၢၣ်
 * Scottish Gaelic: cnothag
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: лѝчӣнка
 * Roman:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: cerw
 * Spanish:, cresa, , ,
 * Sundanese:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: uod
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: опа́риш
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: mitameit
 * Welsh: cynrhonyn, macai, maceion, cynrhon


 * Belarusian: чарвя́к, гні́да
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Korean: 버러지
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Ukrainian: черв'я́к, гни́да


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,


 * Esperanto:
 * Sundanese:

Verb

 * 1)  To rid (an animal) of maggots.