jiggery-pokery

Questions about jiggery-pokery

What is another word for jiggery-pokery?

It depends which jiggery-pokery you mean. In the sense “verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way”, the synonyms are trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, skulduggery, skullduggery. Across all 1 sense there are 6 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of jiggery-pokery?

WordNet records no antonym for jiggery-pokery. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for jiggery-pokery come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

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• Full entry for jiggery-pokeryAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for jiggery-pokeryWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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