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jiggery-pokery colloq.|ˈdʒɪgərɪˈpəʊkərɪ|
[Cf. Sc. joukery-pawkery (see joukery, jookery b).]
Deceitful or dishonest ‘manipulation’; hocus-pocus, humbug.
1893in Dartnell & Goddard Gloss. Words Wiltshire 86. 1926 E. F. Spanner Naviators ix. 104, I thought..it was some more jiggery-pokery to keep down the expenditure this financial year. 1943Mind LII. 304, I share with Gray the feeling that there's some jiggery pokery here and that what you are doing is not what one tends to feel you are doing. 1973G. Mitchell Murder of Busy Lizzie ii. 23 Business reasons could make any alliance respectable..so long as there was no jiggery-pokery. |