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From cod +‎ -ology.

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codology (countable and uncountable, plural codologies)

  1. (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).

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