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coggeries

coggeries is the plural of coggery.

Meaning of coggery

Noun

coggery (countable and uncountable, plural coggeries)

  1. (obsolete) trick; deception
    • 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

Questions about coggeries

What is coggeries the plural of?
Coggeries is the plural of coggery.

Words near coggeries in the dictionary

  1. coger
  2. cogers
  3. Coggan
  4. cogged
  5. cogger
  6. coggeries
  7. coggers
  8. coggery
  9. Coggeshall
  10. Coggeshalls
  11. Coggin

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