Etymology

Scandiknavery

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Today it means: Duplicity by or involving Scandinavians. Full definition →

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The story

Blend of Scandinavian + knavery. Coined by Irish novelist and poet James Joyce in his 1939 novel Finnegans Wake (see quotation below).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.