coggery
English
Etymology
cog + -ery
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɒɡəɹi/
Noun
coggery (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 […]
- a. 1603, William Watson, A Decacordon of Ten Quodlibeticall Questions