Kidology is the art or practice of bluffing or deceiving, from kid (to tease, probably from treating someone like a child) plus -ology. It is the fourth of A.Word.A.Day’s “words with scene-stealing examples”: George Benton, Evander Holyfield’s trainer, built the boxer’s stamina by calling two-minute sparring rounds three minutes, or three-minute rounds four. “The kidology worked.”