magot

From French magot.

magot (plural magots)

1. (archaic) The Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus) native to the Atlas Mountains of Algeria and Morocco along with a small population of uncertain origin in Gibraltar.
   • 1800, The Lady's Magazine Or Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex, volume 31, page 16:

     The magot differs from the ape by having a long muzzle and large canine teeth; and from the baboon by having no actual tail; though it has an exuberance of skin which bears that appearance.

2. (art) A seated oriental figurine, usually of porcelain or ivory, of a grotesque form

• AMGOT

Unknown/uncertain origin.

• IPA^(key): /ma.ɡo/

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magot m (plural magots)

1. the Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus) native to the Atlas Mountains of Algeria and Morocco along with a small population of uncertain origin in Gibraltar
2. (art) a seated oriental figurine, usually of porcelain or ivory, of a grotesque form
3. (colloquial) an ugly man

magot m (plural magots)

1. (colloquial) Savings, nest egg, loot, booty
2. (colloquial) a large sum of money
3. treasure

• “magot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• magat, maked

Variant of maddok by metathesis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɡɔt/

magot (plural magots)

1. maggot, bedbug

• English: maggot
• Yola: maghogès (plural)

• “magot, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

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magot m (plural magots)

1. (Jersey) maggot

Borrowed from French magot.

magot m (plural magoți)

1. Barbary macaque, magot

magot (nominative plural magots)

1. statue