Maggoty (Adjective)
Meaning
Spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies; "flyblown meat"; "a sack of maggoty apricots".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The abandoned dumpster was filled with maggoty food waste that attracted swarms of flies.
- After a few days of neglect, the leftover meat had become maggoty and was no longer edible.
- The fruit bowl had been left unattended for weeks, and the once-ripe apples had turned maggoty and mushy.
- The hunter discovered a maggoty carcass of a deer in the woods, likely the result of a recent animal attack.
- The health inspector condemned the restaurant's kitchen after finding a maggoty batch of spoiled vegetables in the storage room.