codologyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

codology (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 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).

同意語

• kidology

参照

• Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
• “codology” in the Collins English Dictionary, Glasgow: HarperCollins Publishers.