jiggery-pokery
\JIG-uh-ree-POH-kuh-ree\
noun
1. Chiefly British. trickery, hocus-pocus; fraud; humbug.
2. Chiefly British. sly, underhanded action.
Quotes
A wealth of impure jiggery-pokery, much of it very funny, all of it unusable; a spate of “fixables”; a bunch of excellent poetry (see below) and a partridge in a pear tree.
-- Mary Ann Madden, “New York Magazine Competition,” New York, October 9, 1972
Origin
Jiggery-pokery entered English in the late 1800s and is an alteration of the Scots expression joukery-pawkery.
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