coggery

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

cog +‎ -ery

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

coggery (countable and uncountable, plural coggeries)

  1. (obsolete) trick; deception
    • a. 1603, William Watson, A Decacordon of Ten Quodlibeticall Questions:
      Therefore can I not but often smile in my sleeue to heare and see the Iesuits coggery in euery thing […]
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