maggoty
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Is maggoty a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (literally) Infested with and/or partially eaten by maggots; flyblown.Examples: "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?)."Synonyms: flyblown, worm-eatenliterally
2. (dated) Full of whims; capricious; freakish.Examples: "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."Synonyms: maggotishdated
Definition source: Wiktionary