基本释义
n. [无脊椎] 蛆；空想，狂想
星级词汇
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助记提示
1. 谐音“茅坑的”—蛆不就是主要生存自茅坑里吗？
2. Figurative use “whim, fancy, crotchet” is 1620s, from the notion of a maggot in the brain.
3. 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 his or her brain.
英文词源
maggot 蛆，发疯的
来自中古英语magot,改编自maddock,虫，蛆，来自Proto-Germanic*mathon,来自PIE*math,虫，蛆虫，词源同moth,mawkish.-ock,小词后缀，词源同hillock.词义发疯的来自民间传说，认为脑子里面进虫或蛆或导致人发疯或反之亦然。
