Word Meanings - MAGGOTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Infested with maggots. 2. Full of whims; capricious. Norris.

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• CAPRICIOUS
  Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable. "Capricious poet." Shak. "Capricious humor." Hugh Miller. A capricious partiality to the Romish practices. Hallam. Syn. -- Freakish; whimsical; fanciful;
• WHIMSY
  A whimsey.
• INFESTER
  One who, or that which, infests.
• WHIMSEY
  To fill with whimseys, or whims; to make fantastic; to craze. To have a man's brain whimsied with his wealth. J. Fletcher.
• WHIMSICALITY
  The quality or state of being whimsical; whimsicalness.
• WHIMSEY; WHIMSY
  A whim. (more info) 1. A whim; a freak; a capricious notion, a fanciful or odd conceit. "The whimsies of poets and painters." Ray. Men's folly, whimsies, and inconstancy. Swift. Mistaking the whimseys of a feverish brain for the calm revelation
• INFESTIVE
  Having no mirth; not festive or merry; dull; cheerless; gloomy; forlorn.
• WHIMSICALNESS
  The quality or state of being whimsical; freakishness; whimsical disposition.
• WHIMSICALLY
  In a whimsical manner; freakishly.
• WHIMSICAL
  1. Full of, or characterized by, whims; actuated by a whim; having peculiar notions; queer; strange; freakish. "A whimsical insult." Macaulay. My neighbors call me whimsical. Addison. 2. Odd or fantastic in appearance; quaintly devised; fantastic.
• INFESTATION
  The act of infesting or state of being infested; molestation; vexation; annoyance. Bacon. Free from the infestation of enemies. Donne.
• INFESTIVITY
  Want of festivity, cheerfulness, or mirth; dullness; cheerlessness.
• INFESTUOUS
  Mischievous; harmful; dangerous. "Infestuous as serpents." Bacon.
• INFEST
  Mischievous; hurtful; harassing. Spenser.