jiggery-pokery

短语

n. 欺诈, 欺骗

发音

UK /ˌdʒɪɡ.ə.ɹiˈpəʊ.kə.ɹi/
AU
US /ˌdʒɪɡ.ɚ.iˈpoʊ.kɚ.i/

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Trickery or misrepresentation.

    不可数
  2. 2.

    Manipulation.

    不可数

    ...what my friend Singleton calls "rigging, cornering, and general jiggery-pokery methods,"...

  3. 3.

    Sexual intercourse.

    委婉 不可数

词汇关系

名词

同义词 6

trickery hocus-pocus hanky-panky skulduggery skullduggery slickness

上位词 3

deception deceit misrepresentation

词源

Borrowed from Scots joukery-pawkery (“trickery; deceit”) Attested in English since the nineteenth century. The earliest known use was in the Berkshire Chronicle in 1845.

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