coggery
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editcoggery (countable and uncountable, plural coggeries)
- (obsolete) trick; deception
- a. 1603, William Watson, A Decacordon of Ten Quodlibeticall Questions:
- Therefore can I not but often smile in my sleeue to heare and see the Iesuits coggery in euery thing […]