Scandiknavery

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Duplicity by or involving Scandinavians. nonce-word, uncountable

    "For to sod the brave son of Scandiknavery."

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"For to sod the brave son of 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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