jiggery-pokery

What does jiggery-pokery mean?

jiggery-pokery means "verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way".

How many syllables are in jiggery-pokery?

jiggery-pokery has 6 syllables: jig-ge-ry--po-ke-ry. The stress falls on "po".

What is another word for jiggery-pokery?

Close synonyms include trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, skulduggery. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is jiggery-pokery a common word?

jiggery-pokery is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for jiggery-pokery come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.