English Explanatory Dictionary

Scandiknavery

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Duplicity by or involving Scandinavians.

Word forms

Scandiknavery

Etymology

Blend of Scandinavian + knavery. Coined by Irish novelist and poet James Joyce in his 1939 novel Finnegans Wake (see quotation below).

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