Word of the Day: jiggery-pokery

jiggery-pokery: (n.) -- deceitful or dishonest manipulation; underhand scheming or behavior; hocus-pocus, humbug, subterfuge, hanky panky, skullduggery, slickness, trickery.

Interesting tidbit: jiggery-pokery is a classic example of what’s called a double dactyl, a dactyl being a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables; it’s named after the Greek word for finger, whose joints represent the three syllables. Other examples of double dactyls are higgledy-piggledy and idiosyncrasy.