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counterploy en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Italic *-teros Proto-Italic *komterosder. Proto-Italic *komterād Latin contrāder. Old French contre- Anglo-Norman countre-bor. Middle English counter- English counter- English ploy English counterploy From counter- + ploy.

Meanings

  1. A clever trick used to counteract another clever trick.
    • So it goes. Bluff and counterbluff, ploy and counterploy. 1971, William O. Johnson, Super Spectator and the Electric Lilliputians, page 114:

Forms

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