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Etymology

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From cog +‎ -ery.

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Noun

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coggery (countable and uncountable, plural coggeries)

  1. (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 []