Meanings of jiggery-pokery in English

Hip-hop by way of Johannesburg jive, Mexican Mariachi and hillbilly jiggery-pokery.

Hadn't there been some jiggery-pokery with his books in London?

But that doesn't stop a bit of gay jiggery-pokery.

And here's your present, all exactly as you asked this time and no jiggery-pokery to it.

His fiscal jiggery-pokery has been fully exposed.

You don't think any jiggery-pokery of this sort is going to snatch Clayton into the world of shades.

Government officials will temporize by getting scientists to "compromise" and "split the difference" between actual science and partisan jiggery-pokery.

The wife is cunning, deceitful, and lecherous, and she is invariably up to some sort of jiggery-pokery with the dirty dog.

Sadly, Conan Doyle had no time for homosexual jiggery-pokery and Holmes and Watson have so far been denied their rightful status as gay icons.

That same month his dissent on a ruling that affirmed Barack Obama's healthcare reforms dismissed the majority opinion as "pure applesauce" and "jiggery-pokery".

"Look here," he said, "I'm beginning to think there's been some jiggery-pokery somewhere.

"What sort of jiggery-pokery was Goode up to?"