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jiggery-pokery definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way [syn: trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: probably alteration of Scots joukery-pawkery, from jouk to dodge, cheat + pawk trick, wile Date: circa 1892 underhanded manipulation or dealings ; trickery

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. Brit. colloq. deceitful or dishonest dealing, trickery. Etymology: cf. Sc. joukery-pawkery f. jouk dodge, skulk

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe behaviour as jiggery-pokery, you mean that it involves tricking people or being dishonest. (BRIT INFORMAL, OLD-FASHIONED) It seems astonishing that Bond got away with so much jiggery-pokery for as long as he did.