codology

Hoaxing, humbugging, bluffing, deception.

Noun

  1. 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
    • 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,...

Origin

From cod + -ology.

Forms

codologies

Synonyms

kidology