jiggery-pokery

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jiggery-pokery - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  jiggery-pokery \jiggery-pokery\ n.
     A verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of a
     person in some way.
  
     Syn: trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky,
          skulduggery, skullduggery.
          [WordNet 1.5]

jiggery-pokery - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  jiggery-pokery
      n 1: verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you
           in some way [syn: trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness,
           hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery,
           skullduggery]