maggers

On the other hand, on the series * Cavemen, * the cavemen referred to themselves as "maggers," but this was considered racist, and the word "magger" quickly disappeared from the sitcom's scripts.

Paul Krassner: Don Imus Meets Michael Richards 2008

You could walk freely among some of Philly's hip-hop giants (actually, any number of musicians from across the country might have been up in there) but the ubiquitous celluloid-posturing from digital-maggers and jaded scribes was clogging the air with ill-tempered vibes.

The Clog 2009

On his majesty, who was, or often feigned to be, noticeably longsighted from green youth and had been meaning to inquire what, in effect, had caused yon causeway to be thus potholed, asking substitutionally to be put wise as to whether paternoster and silver doctors were not now more fancied bait for lobstertrapping honest blunt Haromphreyld answered in no uncertain tones very similarly with a fear — less forehead: Naw, yer maggers, aw war jist a cotchin on thon bluggy earwuggers.

Finnegans Wake 2006

"horse-maggers" as he called them, returned in spring two or three pairs attached themselves to this group of burrows and bred in them.

Afoot in England 1881