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jiggery-pokery

/jig-uh-ree-poh-kuh-ree/US // ˈdʒɪg ə riˈpoʊ kə ri //UK // (ˈdʒɪɡərɪˈpəʊkərɪ) //

抖音,抖擞精神,抖擞精神的人,抖音上有很多人在说

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Chiefly British.

    • : trickery, hocus-pocus; fraud; humbug.
    • : sly, underhanded action.
    • : manipulation: After a little jiggery-pokery, the engine started.

Examples

  • Bottger insisted that the buck-and-wing and the double shuffle and other forms of jiggery were low.

  • In all the time they had known him he had never been guilty of anything stronger than “My jiggery!”

  • You don't think any jiggery-pokery of this sort is going to snatch Clayton into the world of shades.

  • A good fight, a good glass of beer, a good pipe, a good wife—that's what a man needs; no French jiggery and music nonsense.

  • She went away with a horrid, stiff, pokery girl called Cassandra Weldon.