jiggery-pokeryn.
/ˌdʒɪɡ(ə)rɪˈpəʊk(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˌdʒɪɡəriˈpoʊkəri/ colloquial.
Deceitful or dishonest ‘manipulation’; hocus-pocus, humbug.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun]
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1893 G. E. Dartnell & E. H. Goddard Gloss. Words Wilts. 86.
1926 E. F. Spanner Naviators ix. 104 I thought..it was some more jiggery-pokery to keep down the expenditure this financial year.
1943 Mind 52 304 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.
1973 G. Mitchell Murder of Busy Lizzie ii. 23 Business reasons could make any alliance respectable..so long as there was no jiggery-pokery.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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