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Webster 1913 Edition


Coggery

Cog′ger-y

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Noun.
Trick; deception.
Bp. Watson.

Webster 1828 Edition


Coggery

COGGERY

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Noun.
Trick; falsehood.

Definition 2024


coggery

coggery

English

Noun

coggery (countable and uncountable, plural coggeries)

  1. (obsolete) trick; deception
    • Bishop William Watson
      Therefore can I not but often smile in my sleeue to heare and see the Iesuits coggery in euery thing []