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In some senses, jiggery-pokery is marked as euphemistic. Watch for register when choosing this word.
noun
Trickery or misrepresentation.
'Jiggery-pokery,' said Helena, 'you talk jiggery-pokery. Stop it, can't you?'
Much as 'off-balance sheet' jiggery-pokery and other 'creative accounting' allowed banks to get away with false impressions of their true financial position...
Manipulation.
...under the present law, the averages were made up so faithfully and fairly as to prevent any jiggery-pokery.
...what my friend Singleton calls "rigging, cornering, and general jiggery-pokery methods,"...
Sexual intercourse.
...the males, like most birds, have no penis. But that doesn't stop a bit of gay jiggery-pokery.