codology
Hoaxing, humbugging, bluffing, deception.
Noun
- 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.