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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.
The investigation began with the discovery of a deer carcass, decaying and maggoty, that had been dumped at the school's front door.
He was hungry, but he'd rather starve to death than eat the maggoty meat and rice the guards tossed in once a day.
In the hold of the Dunera they had drawn drawings, held lectures in philosophy, formed a debating society, fashioned chess sets out of maggoty bread-dough.
Hatem, maggoty police officer, handles this neighbourhood with an iron hand.
He had an ironplated stomach, but putrid and maggoty meat was too much for it.

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