Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies;
- Example: "flyblown meat"- Example: "a sack of maggoty apricots"[syn: flyblown, maggoty]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Maggoty \Mag"got*y\, a.
1. Infested with maggots.
[1913 Webster]
2. Full of whims; capricious. --Norris.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
maggoty
adj 1: spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies;
"flyblown meat"; "a sack of maggoty apricots" [syn:
flyblown, maggoty]