maggotとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 magot, magat, maked, probably a metathetic alteration of maddock, maðek (“worm", "maggot”), originally a diminutive form of a base represented by 古期英語 maþa (Scots mathe), from Proto-West Germanic *maþō, from Proto-Germanic *maþô, from the Proto-Indo-European root *mat, which was used in insect names, equivalent to made +‎ -ock. Near-cognates include Dutch made, German Made and Swedish mask, Icelandic maðkur (“worm, grub, maggot”).

The use of maggot to mean a fanciful or whimsical thing derives from the folk belief that a whimsical or crotchety person had maggots in their brain.

発音

• IPA: /ˈmæɡət/
  • • (Upper Midwestern 米国発音, Northwestern 米国発音, Canada, æ-raising) IPA: /ˈmeɪ̯ɡət/
• 韻: -æɡət
• ハイフネーション: mag‧got
• Homophone: MAGAt

名詞

maggot (plural maggots)

1. A soft, legless larva of a fly or other dipteran insect, that often eats decomposing organic matter. [from 15th c.]
2. (slang, derogatory) A worthless person. [from 17th c.]

   Drop and give me fifty, maggot.

   • 1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 32:

     "Maggot!" said Catweazle angrily. "Sit thee down!"

3. (archaic or dialect) A whimsy or fancy. [from 17th c.]
   • 1620, John Fletcher, Women Pleased, III.iv:

     Are you not mad, my friend? What time o' th' moon is't? / Have not you maggots in your brain?

   • 1778, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 100:

     ‘I am ashamed of him! how can he think of humouring you in such maggots!’

   • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:

     […] If you draw, Sir, there's one prospect up the river, by the mills—upon my conscience—but you don't draw?'
     No answer.
     'A little, Sir, maybe? Just for a maggot, I'll wager—like my good lady, Mrs. Toole.'

   • 1927, Dorothy Sayers, Unnatural Death‎:

     Scotland Yard have two maggots which crop up whenever anything happens to a young woman. Either it’s White Slavery or Dope Dens⁠—sometimes both.

4. (slang) A fan of the American metal band Slipknot.
   • 2004, “Pulse of the Maggots”, performed by Slipknot:

     (We) We are the new diabolic
     (We) We are the bitter bucolic
     If I have to give my life, you can have it
     (We) We are the pulse of the maggots

5. (US politics, slang, offensive, derogatory) Alternative form of MAGAt.

同意語

• (soft legless larva): grub

派生語

関連する語

• mawk
• mawkish

動詞

maggot (third-person singular simple present maggots, present participle maggoting, simple past and past participle maggoted)

1. (transitive) To rid (an animal) of maggots.
   • 1950, Frederick Daniel Smith, Barbara Wilcox, Sold for Two Farthings, page 82:

     In the summer I had to get the sheep penned twice a day to maggot them and I needed a good dog.

形容詞

maggot (comparative more maggot, superlative most maggot)

1. (colloquial, Australia) Alternative form of maggoted (“drunk; intoxicated”).