jiggery-pokery

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  1. noun Underhand scheming or behavior: "By some legal—or perhaps illegal—jiggery-pokery, he could declare the election void” (John Hughes).

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  • It helped me figure out the ignition interlock system and RFID reader, so with a bit of jiggery-pokery, a modified wiring loom, and an Arduino I successfully started the car tonight totally under software control. —  Jonathan Oxer\'s Brain(cell)
  • No cleaning or other sorts of jiggery-pokery needed! —  1UP RSS feed
  • Statistics which have been forged to suggest a contrary, post-1968 effect, have been clearly fraudulent concealment of the visible physical reality of the increasing ruin of the general population and territory of the U.S.A. under the cover of financial jiggery-pokery crafted for the intellectual consumption of the credulous. —  LaRouche's Latest
  • When it comes to players you have what is at your natural disposal, give or take some passport jiggery-pokery. —  TEAMtalk Football News
  • I am not suggesting in any way that there was any deliberate jiggery-pokery on the part of BBC technicians, but there will be more than a few BBC staff who will think that Cameron got his come-uppance. —  Iain Dale's Diary
 

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  1. Alteration of joukery-pawkery : from Scots jouk, to dodge (probably from duck2) + Scots pawk, trick.
 

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