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noun
- 1. foolish or untrue talk or writing; nonsense: informal Irish "of course the missus reckons it's just a bit of codology on my part"
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Codology definition: the art or practice of bluffing or deception. See examples of CODOLOGY used in a sentence.
codology. Irish informal the art or practice of bluffing or deception.... Click for English pronunciations, examples sentences, video.
Aug 20, 2023 · codology ( countable and uncountable, plural codologies) ( Ireland, colloquial) Hoaxing, humbugging, bluffing, deception .
Nov 16, 2020 · Codology is an Irish English word which, according to the OED, first appeared in print in James Joyce’s novel “Ulysses” in 1922 (“The why and wherefore and all the codology of the business”).
Codology derives from the slightly older slang term cod, meaning a joke, a hoax, a parody, or take-off. The Belfast Newsletter used it in November 2003: “Seems like politics is a chip off the old block for this candidate who assures us he will not engage in any codology on this campaign.”
Codology definition: (Ireland, colloquial) Hoaxing , humbugging , bluffing , deception .
Codding is misrepresenting or shamming – lying sometimes. Joseph Wright, in his monumental English Dialect Dictionary (vol. 1, 1898) defines to cod as ‘to sham, humbug, hoax, impose upon, lie’, and the noun cod as ‘a humbug; a hoax, imposition, lie’.
