Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - skulduggery
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1.
or skullduggery noun (plural -geries) Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1867 underhanded or unscrupulous behavior; also a devious device or trick ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. (also sculduggery, skullduggery) trickery; unscrupulous behaviour. Etymology: earlier sculduddery, orig. Sc. = unchastity (18th c.: orig. unkn.) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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~ n often humorous secretly dishonest or illegal activity (Some skulduggery no doubt went on during the election.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
6.
- 1856, apparently an alteration of Scottish sculdudrie "adultery" (1713), sculduddery "bawdry, obscenity" (1821), a euphemism of uncertain origin. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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