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noun
Duplicity by or involving Scandinavians.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: nonce-word, uncountable
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History
Blend of Scandinavian + knavery. Coined by Irish novelist and poet James Joyce in his 1939 novel Finnegans Wake (see quotation below).
