coggery

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/ˈkɒɡəɹi/

noun

trick; deception

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Meanings

nouncoggery (countable and uncountable, plural coggeries)

plural coggeries

  1. countableobsoleteuncountabletrick; deception

    Therefore can I not but often smile in my sleeue to heare and see the Iesuits coggery in euery thing […]

    a. 1603, William Watson, A Decacordon of Ten Quodlibeticall Questions

Origin

From cog + -ery.

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APA

coggery. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coggery

MLA

“coggery.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coggery. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “coggery,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coggery.

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