名詞 jiggery-pokery:

1. verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
   同義詞：trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, skulduggery, skullduggery

1. He began to suspect that some jiggery-pokery was going on.
   他懷疑有人在暗中搗鬼。

jig.ger.y-pok.er.y

n.（名詞）
Underhand scheming or behavior; trickery:
陰謀：陰險、欺詐的計劃或行為：
例句：
.By some legal—or perhaps illegal—jiggery-pokery, he could declare the election void.(John Hughes)
.利用合法的、也許是非法的欺騙，他能宣布選舉無效.(約翰·休斯)

來源：
Alteration of joukery-pawkery
joukery-pawkery的變化
from Scots jouk [to dodge] probably from duck 2
源自 蘇格蘭語 jouk [躲避] 可能源自 duck2
Scots pawk [trick]
蘇格蘭語 pawk [詭計]