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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.
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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.