codology
nounEtymology From cod + -ology.
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Ireland, Colloquial Hoaxing, humbugging, bluffing, deception.
- Bloom comes out with the why and the wherefore and all the codology of the business.1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
- Being an Englishman, Hilton had no time for codology.6 June 2004, Hugh Leonard, A night with Hilton and Michael, Sunday Independent
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- I suspect that Mr Ó Duibhginn is, despite his abhorrence of codology, infected with that grimmest of codologies, Anglophobia (grimmest, that is, for Irishmen, as Germanophobia is for Frenchmen).2006, John Jordan, Hugh McFadden, Crystal Clear: The Selected Prose of John Jordan, →ISBN, page 100:
- Synonyms
- kidology