Verbiage - February 12, 2010

Friday, February 12, 2010 at 11:17AM
Rob Dean in Verbiage, Word of the Day, jiggery-pokery

Today's word of the day is Jiggery-Pokery:

Jiggery-pokery

–noun Chiefly British.

1. Trickery, hocus-pocus; fraud; humbug
2. Sly, underhanded action
3. Manipulation: After a little jiggery-pokery, the engine started
   

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