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maggotSoft, plump, limbless larva of flies, a typical example being the larva of the blowfly which is deposited as an egg on flesh. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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But 'the maggot gnaws the cabbage, yet dies first'; that's what the old folks used to tell us," he added rapidly. When there's a bigger maggot than usial in your head you call it They would have to be passed through a powerful press first, to squeeze their old notions out of them, so that they would not soon get upon their legs again; and then there would be some one in the company with a maggot in his head, hatched from an egg deposited there nobody knows when, for not even fire kills these things, and you would have lost your labor. |
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