codology

plural codologies

1. IrelandcolloquialcountableuncountableHoaxing, humbugging, bluffing, deception.

   Being an Englishman, Hilton had no time for codology.

   6 June 2004, Hugh Leonard, A night with Hilton and Michael, Sunday Independent

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   Bloom comes out with the why and the wherefore and all the codology of the business.

   1922, James Joyce, Ulysses

   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, Hugh McFadden, Crystal Clear: The Selected Prose of John Jordan, →ISBN, page 100

   Synonyms: kidology