"gadzookery" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1957, William F. Friedman, Elizabeth S. Friedman, The Shakespearean Ciphers Examined, Reprint edition, Cambridge Univ Press, published 2011, →ISBN, page 57:",
          "text": "By anagramming letters and altering the order of words, he produces two quatrains, which we content merely to quote as examples of gadzookery.",
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          "text": "Her spare prose and dialogue give a period flavour without the dread excesses of gadzookery.",
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          "text": "The cladding is often gadzookery but the story motifs […]",
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          "ref": "2009, Helen Hackett, Shakespeare and Elizabeth: The Meeting of Two Myths, Princeton Univ. Press, →ISBN, page 60:",
          "text": "[…] inspiring a whole genre of pseudo-Elizabethan fiction, sometimes described as \"tushery\" or \"gadzookery.\"",
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          "text": "[…] a middle course, avoiding both Gadzookery and modern colloquialism […]",
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