Word For The Day: Jiggery-Pokery

Merriam-Webster ^ | — Ammon Shea

[cripplecreek]

Gittin Jiggery Pokery wid it.

[Louis Foxwell]

Now here is a fine turn of phrase.
All you poets, lyricists and limericists will Have fun with rhyming reduplication thanks to our favorite justice Scalia.
Have at it, and, remember, awards for everyone! Because everyone on this thread is daring do.

[Diogenesis]

Salient jiggery-pokery abounds in the Beltway,
peaking right in the halls of Congress.
Here they come, now.

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"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream.
It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same,
or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children
and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
President Ronald Reagan

[left that other site]

Eyew...it sounds too much like the latest SCOTUS decision.

[Louis Foxwell]

Nicely done Diogenesis. For the first award of the day I am happy to provide:

[theDentist]

They’d considered their options. They buried misdeeds.
They thought they had the belly for it... and they dared to try.
But then Jiggery Pokery Hillary got attention, and her minions are now digging into the histories, and her wrath will follow.

[Louis Foxwell]

An apt description, I agree. This is rapidly turning into a porcine - piggledy wiggledy - thread.

[Louis Foxwell]

Masterful and masterfully done.
This is the sort of entry deserving of the highest acclaim.
A Hill papist bull for you. (Note the blood stained hand)

[left that other site]

LOL...a swinish thought, indeed!

[verga]

I thought his was the usual WFTD and hesitated to click on it since anything I said might either be construed as Racist/ sexist, or get me banned even though it would be completely true.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Iffen you drink too many whiskey Jiggerys, you’re Pokery sessions will become very expensive.

[Honorary Serb]

Kagan and Ginsburg were indeed guilty of jiggery-pokery, when they refused to recuse themselves even though they had presided over several “gay” “weddings” each!!!

But hoity-toity ex-academics attack Scalia for his use of the word “ jiggery-pokery” (and his “obsolete ideas”), while leaving Kagan and Ginsburg and their unethical behavior alone!!!!

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/letters/2015/07/03/scalia-sarcasm-unbecoming-supreme-court-justice/LdYUSbQC6m5Pn6CNWZlbcL/story.html#

Conservatives and Christians must REFUSE to be namby-pamby, and stand up to the “gays” and their vile “allies”!!!!!

Or else, America is down the toilet! Uh-oh!!!!

[MrB]

Just like the word “niggardly”, the WOTD COULD be, by an ignorant observer/hearer be construed as “racist”.

[kennedy]

I am waiting for some talking head to claim it is a racist term derived from the word jigaboo.

[Louis Foxwell]

Nice. Pigs playing porker.

[Louis Foxwell]

A lesson that must be learned if we are to continue to exist as a nation of free Men.

To wit:

[Louis Foxwell]

Sorry, no awards given for perceived microaggressions.

[MrB]

You're not giving me an award because I'm a minority, aren't you!

Help! I'm being micro-aggressed!

[verga]

Okay let me try again.

The jiggery-pokery that has been engaged in by the current congress, SCOTUS, and POTUS and their disdain for the Constitution serve to explain the why so many Americans have no respect for them.