maggotry
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
maggot + -ry, from maggot (“a whim”).
Noun[edit]
maggotry (countable and uncountable, plural maggotries)
- An utter absurdity; folly.
- 2006 Fall, Whalen, “Wall Street's Derivatives Casino”, in The International Economy[1], 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.