Meaning of jiggery-pokery | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Trickery or misrepresentation.
   uncountable
2. Manipulation.
   uncountable
3. Sexual intercourse.
   euphemistic, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“'Jiggery-pokery,' said Helena, 'you talk⟳ jiggery-pokery. Stop⟳ it, can't you?'”

“Much as 'off-balance sheet' jiggery-pokery and other 'creative accounting' allowed banks to get⟳ away with false impressions of their true financial position...”

“...under the present⟳ law, the averages were made up so faithfully and fairly as to prevent⟳ any jiggery-pokery.”

“...what my friend Singleton calls "rigging, cornering, and general jiggery-pokery methods,"...”

“Indeed, there was some highly questionable jiggery-pokery with couplings and continuous brakes in this agreeable story, which featured Moore Marriott as an old driver who averts a disaster on his last⟳ run⟳.”

“The hon. Member for Dover is suggesting that if all the facts were revealed, there would be less danger of people thinking that there was jiggery-pokery.”

“...the males, like⟳ most birds, have⟳ no penis. But that doesn't stop⟳ a bit of gay jiggery-pokery.”

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