maggoty

maggoty

slang Extremely drunk. Martin brought a huge bottle of whiskey with him for us to pass around, and we were all positively maggoty by the end of the evening.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

maggot(t)y

mod. alcohol intoxicated; very drunk. (A play on rotten.) Rotten, hell. They were absolutely maggotty!

maggoty

verb
See maggotty
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • maggotty
  • tornado juice
  • popskull
  • shoe polish
  • Banbury
  • Banbury story
  • Banbury story of a cock and a bull
  • Banbury tale
  • pull
  • pull (one's) punches
References in periodicals archive
Frederick displaying her mother's portrait to a close-up of Hitler's maggoty face, with superimposed title:
Mouldy, maggoty, full of suckholes--one had to watch out for one's feet" (144).
They're dry maggoty things, but they're not good climbers and if you put them in a bowl, they won't get out!
But their success in the game of love helps protect your favorite fruits and vegetables from becoming an icky, maggoty mess.
The difference may have to do with all the marvelously poetic allusions lambs evoke, by contrast with maggoty animal heads, which evoke none and are, in the idiom of contemporary childhood, simply gross.
Try and halt a moment in our lives and it becomes maggoty at once.
The second volume ended at "HOYLESTOWN (MAGGOTY COVE)," which succinctly and frustratingly states: "See St.
In the first series, which aired early last year, the contestants were soon seen putting the 'mess' in 'Mesolithic' - allowing their unrefrigerated food to get maggoty, their animal skin bedding to become lousy with fly larvae and, in the case of the strapping alpha male who'd initially looked like a shoo-in to win, sobbing into their loin cloths because they missed their mums.
Celebrating the mutiny which occurs on board the eponymous ship after its sailors are given maggoty meat, Eisenstein hoped new music would be written every 20 years to keep Potemkin's revolutionary message alive.
The Body Farm (BBC One Wales, Tuesday, 9pm) * AFTER the initial nay-saying, this Waking the Dead spin-off series has managed to win over audiences with oodles of maggoty goo and sarky one-liners from Keith Allen.
Scrump even the most maggoty windfall, done for theft.
The thing is maggoty, but they are just about frozen solid.
Won $50,000 on "Fear Factor" by eating maggoty potatoes.
And Lester Bangs, who up to that point had been one of Reed's most loyal champions, pushed the anti-argument still further when he described it as "a gargantuan slab of maggoty rancour that may well be the most depressed album ever made".