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maggot

[mag-uht] / ˈmæg ət /
NOUN
insect
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His electric guitar playing featured much more heavily on the album, giving it a more rocky sound - and earning comparisons to Funkadelic’s influential 1971 album, Maggot Brain.

From BBC • Oct. 15, 2025

And that makes a difference on big, cinematic songs like the title track of Funkadelic’s Maggot Brain.

From The Verge • Jul. 11, 2016

More than half of the tracks are instrumentals, with Sartin's oboe, cor anglais and violin matched against Hutchinson's accordion on elegant, stately tunes scuh as Coventry Tango or the sturdy, hypnotic Mr Marsden's Maggot.

From The Guardian • Nov. 15, 2012

They come in rich color, some serene and some disturbing, from the antifreeze green of the Splattered Shag’s beak to the primitive red and black of the Angered Maggot Sleet.

From New York Times • Oct. 1, 2012

It no longer surprised them; but he made no secret that he owed his recent knowledge largely to Farmer Maggot, whom he seemed to regard as a person of more importance than they had imagined.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien




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