Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Maggot

Maggot , noun

[Welsh macai, pl. maceiod, magiod, a worn or grub; compare magu to bread.]

1.
(Zoology) The footless larva of any fly. See Larval.
2.
A whim; an odd fancy. — Hudibras. Tennyson