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- Scots · borrowed fromjoukery-pawkery“trickery; deceit”
- English todayjiggery-pokery
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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.