MAGIC WORDS Jigaldee Pigaldee Piggaldee Deeeee, Iggalee Pigaleee Alakazee In Literature: • This is an incantation for removing hiccups in the novel The Key to the Land of Dogs by Gareth M. Wilson (2004). Jiggedy Bobbidy Fool (see bibbidy-bobbidy-boo) In Literature: • Imamu Amiri Baraka, The Leroi Jones (1960) Jiggery Pokery (see also hocus pocus) Some magical illusion produced by jiggery-pokery. -- Keith McCarthy, The Silent Sleep of the Dying (2004) Mystique: "Extraordinary visual wizardry"1 -- that's jiggery pokery in a nutshell. Meanings: • Action with astonishing results -- Betty Kirkpatrick, Cassell's Thesaurus (2001) • Conartistry, cheating "Then I see some more swindling and jiggery-pokery . . ." -- Dorota Maslowska, Snow White and Russian Red (2005) "[W]hen politics becomes little more than dirty tricks and jiggery pokery, and back-room deals . . ." -- Thomas Singer, The Vision Thing (2000) • Clever deception, outwitting -- David Irving, Nuremberg: The Last Battle (1996) "[Y]ou're too clever for jiggery-pokery." -- Nicholas Freeling, Flanders Sky (1992) • Double-talk -- Paul Sillitoe, A Place Against Time (1996) 1 Toby Rose, quoted in Lars Von Trier: Interviews by Jan Lumholdt (200 )