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What does maggoty mean?

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Adjective
  1. (literally) Infested with and/or partially eaten by maggots; flyblown.
  2. (obsolete) Full of whims; capricious.
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I thought perhaps of food, the maggoty noodles, and then I thought no, of some great feast, baskets and platters and cornucopias.
And this is why maggoty mushrooms are so often found exposed for sale in summer.
I wash the dirt carefully off their stems, slice away any maggoty flesh, and cook them in garlic and cream.
The investigation began with the discovery of a deer carcass, decaying and maggoty, that had been dumped at the school's front door.
He and the crew have had to subsist on maggoty hardtack, cold gruel, and a slimy block of cheese that has become host to a most foul-tasting clutch of worms.
There are menacing hyenas and a maggoty baby, but these aren't the moments where you feel Schrader is strongest.

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