Maggotry

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An utter absurdity; folly. countable, uncountable

    "The funds financials, which were sterling, said nothing about the operation risk embedded inside these individual members of the hedge fund maggotry."

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"The funds financials, which were sterling, said nothing about the operation risk embedded inside these individual members of the hedge fund maggotry."

Etymology

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

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