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coggery

/ˈkɒɡəɹi/

coggery noun: trick; deception.

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

Forms of coggery

pluralcoggeries

Origin of coggery

From cog + -ery.

Questions about coggery

What does coggery mean?
Coggery means trick; deception.
What part of speech is coggery?
Coggery is a noun.
How do you pronounce coggery?
Coggery is pronounced /ˈkɒɡəɹi/.
What is the plural of coggery?
The plural of coggery is coggeries.

Words near coggery in the dictionary

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

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