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Meanings of maggoty in inglés

Spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies.

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Examples for "flyblown"
Examples for "flyblown"
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The blood around the flyblown wound was congealed but not completely dry.
Tough customer: a novel
2
The ground floor consisted of a little Italian restaurant, of the flyblown sort.
A Set of Six
3
On the walls were faded oleographs of generals and archbishops, flyblown and stained.
The Lock and Key Library: The Most Interesting Stories of All Na...
4
Valle Crusis has a blacksmith shop and a dirty, flyblown store.
The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 4
5
A fellow gets flyblown if he stays in the field, so I beat it.
Rainbow's End
Usage of maggoty in inglés
1
It seemed to be alive, though, maggoty with life - pulsing, dancing.
Complete Books of Blood
2
In a moment, it seemed, the ward was maggoty with them.
Brave New World
3
We can't live on rum, maggoty bread, and foul water-that'ssure.
No Defense, Volume 2.
4
A maggoty side of beef, ripe with the vitality of its parasites, and gravel.
Return to Pleasure Island
5
Some continental shadow spread like an infection below the maggoty celebration in the sky.
The last page
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Although very repugnant, however, and utterly unfit for food, maggoty mushrooms are not poisonous.
Mushrooms: how to grow them / a practical treatise on mushroom c...
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Buck Moncrossen was a big man with a shrunken, maggoty soul, and no conscience.
The Promise / A Tale of the Great Northwest
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And the skin, the skin was a sickly, maggoty white.
Wastelands
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I felt maggoty with insecurities; I had European circuitry, my voltage wrong for the socket.
Fugitive pieces
10
AM said it with the taste of maggoty pork.
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
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And this is why maggoty mushrooms are so often found exposed for sale in summer.
Mushrooms: how to grow them / a practical treatise on mushroom c...
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Something terrible sat bolt upright in the coffin: a skull-faced maggoty horror with blazing eyes.
Fiendish deeds
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Here, the mutts scrap in marvellous cotton wood dust-ups and struggle to survive on maggoty morsels.
The Irish Times
14
But is this struggle for a healthy mind in a maggoty universe really after all worth it?
Trivia
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Our venison, improderly dried, was molding, and much of it we found, upon unpacking, to be maggoty.
The Long Labrador Trail
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The green was maggoty with fore-shortened life.
Brave New World
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