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Maggot vs Craziness - What's the difference?

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Maggot is a synonym of craziness.


As nouns the difference between maggot and craziness

is that maggot is a soft, legless larva of a fly or other dipterous insect, that often eats decomposing organic matter while craziness is (uncountable) the state of being broken in mind; imbecility or weakness of intellect; derangement.

maggot

English

(wikipedia maggot)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A soft, legless larva of a fly or other dipterous insect, that often eats decomposing organic matter.
  • A term of insult for a 'worthless' person, as if a bug.
    • Drop and give me fifty, maggot .
  • (obsolete) A whimsy or fancy.
    • Mr. Beveridge's Maggot , an old country dance [http://www.izaak.unh.edu/nhltmd/indexes/dancingmaster/Dance/Play4199.htm].
  • * 1620 , , Women Pleased , III.iv.
    • Are you not mad, my friend? What time o' th' moon is't? / Have not you maggots in your brain?

    Synonyms

    * (soft legless larva) grub

    Derived terms

    * act the maggot * maggoted * maggoting * maggotish * maggotorium * maggoty * maggotiness

    Related terms

    * mawk * mawkish

    craziness

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (uncountable) The state of being broken in mind; imbecility or weakness of intellect; derangement.
  • (uncountable) The state of being broken down or weakened; as, the craziness of a ship, or of the limbs.
  • (countable) The result or product of being crazy.