Meanings
nounmaggotry (countable and uncountable, plural maggotries)
plural maggotries
- countableuncountableAn utter absurdity; folly.
The funds financials, which were sterling, said nothing about the operation risk embedded inside these individual members of the hedge fund maggotry.
2006 Fall, Whalen, “Wall Street's Derivatives Casino”, in The International Economy, archived from the original on 14 Mar 2012, page 49
Origin
From maggot + -ry, from maggot (“a whim”).
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