codology

English

Etymology

From cod +‎ -ology.

Noun

codology (countable and uncountable, plural codologies)

(Ireland, colloquial) Hoaxing, humbugging, bluffing, deception.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
  Bloom comes out with the why and the wherefore and all the codology of the business.
- 6 June 2004, Hugh Leonard, A night with Hilton and Michael, Sunday Independent:
  Being an Englishman, Hilton had no time for codology.
- 2006, John Jordan, Hugh McFadden, Crystal Clear: The Selected Prose of John Jordan, →ISBN, page 100:
  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).

Synonyms

kidology

References

Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
“codology”, in Collins English Dictionary.

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