codology
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]codology (countable and uncountable, plural codologies)
- (Ireland, colloquial) Hoaxing, humbugging, bluffing, deception.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
- Bloom comes out with the why and the wherefore and all the codology of the business.
- 6 June 2004, Hugh Leonard, A night with Hilton and Michael, Sunday Independent:
- Being an Englishman, Hilton had no time for codology.
- 2006, John Jordan, Hugh McFadden, Crystal Clear: The Selected Prose of John Jordan, →ISBN, page 100:
- 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).
Synonyms
[edit]References
[edit]- Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
- “codology”, in Collins English Dictionary.