Maggot-pie

[Magaret]

A curse word used by Shakespeare. A pie made out of maggots or common fly larva which lives in rotten objects.

[Guest]

Nuts

[Guest]

Dank wood

[Guest]

I thought maggot-pie meant magpie.

[Guest]

Shakespeare uses the term in Macbeth, when talking about various ways of forecasting the future. 'Magot pie' comes in a list of birds - magot pies, choughs, and rooks.

"Stones have been known to move and trees to speak;
Augurs and understood relations have
By magot pies and choughs and rooks brought forth
The secret'st man of blood"