maggoty

1. 1.

   spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies

   “flyblown meat”

   “a sack of maggoty apricots”

   Synonymsflyblown

   Similarstale

Questions about maggoty

What does maggoty mean?

maggoty means "spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies".

How many syllables are in maggoty?

maggoty has 3 syllables: mag-go-ty. The stress falls on "mag".

What is another word for maggoty?

Close synonyms include flyblown. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.