maggotry

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^[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.