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Jun. 1, 2015

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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