Sunday Word: Jiggery-pokery

[sallymn]

jiggery-pokery [ jig-uh-ree-poh-kuh-ree]

noun:
(Cheifly British)
1 trickery, hocus-pocus; fraud; humbug
2 sly, underhanded action
3 manipulation

Examples:

For all the corrugated iron sheep, dogs, cows, parrots, cockatoos and chooks that populate Michael Scott-Mitchell's witty, fully corrugated set, for all the jiggery-pokery and quackery-

Comments

[spikesgirl58]

Love this one. I am so going to use it.

[sallymn]

It's fun to say as well as useful!

[spikesgirl58]

It sure is. :DD