Maggot vs Terms - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between maggot and terms

is that maggot is a soft, legless larva of a fly or other dipterous insect, that often eats decomposing organic matter while terms is .

(wikipedia maggot)

(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?

* (soft legless larva) grub

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