maggotry

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English

Etymology

From maggot +‎ -ry, from maggot (a whim).

Noun

maggotry (countable and uncountable, plural maggotries)

  1. An utter absurdity; folly.
    • 2006 Fall, Whalen, “Wall Street's Derivatives Casino”, in The International Economy, archived from the original on 14 March 2012, page 49:
      The funds financials, which were sterling, said nothing about the operation risk embedded inside these individual members of the hedge fund maggotry.