j • Fakery -- Marian Keyes, The Other Side of the Story (2004) • Fictional "Elspeth, what jiggery-pokery Canterbury tale have they hoaxed you with?" -- Patricia Veryan, The Riddle of the Deplorable Dandy (2002) • Finesse "[W]ith a little sly jiggery-pokery . . ." -- David Buser, Beginning Active Server Pages 3.0 (2000) • Good-natured foolery -- Brad Strickland, The Specter from the Magician's Museum (2001) • Hanky-panky, fooling around "They don't mind winking at a bit of jiggery-pokery when a fellow's single, but once he's married, he daren't let 'em find out about it, or they'll cut him." -- Mercedes Lackey, The Gates of Sleep (2002) • Hocus pocus, trickery "I could not forgive him for having dismissed Mephistopheles by a mere trick, a bit of jiggery-pokery." -- Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, and Reflections (1961) "[N]ot excepting Mumbo-Jumbo and Jiggery-Pokery . . ." -- Dorothy L. Sayers, The Mind of the Maker (1941) "The universe is what it is and can't be changed by jiggery-pokery." -- Robert A. Heinlein, Glory Road (196 ) "The sword-swallower turned in a slow circle, swaying, to show there was no jiggery-pokery. No blade was sticking out of his back, he had taken the whole thing down." -- Madison Smartt Bell, Anything Goes (2002) • Intrigue -- Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon (1997) • Magical spells, enchantment -- Michel de Montaigne, An Apology for Raymond Sebond (1987) "Hitherto, except in exploration fantasies, the fantastic element was brought in by magic. Frankenstein, even, uses some jiggery-pokery magic to animate his artificial monster." -- Patrick Brantlinger, A Companion to the Victorian Novel (2002) • Mischief, practical jokes, pranks "Catching on to this spirit of devil-may-care jiggery-pokery, the government played their own little prank on the Delavels . . ." -- Harry Pearson, The Far Corner (1994) • Mumbo jumbo "[T]he scientific jiggery-pokery . . ." -- Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon (1997) • Mystic words "By the use of the mystic words hanky-panky, jiggery-pokery, all-my-eye and what-goddam-fools-we-been . . ." -- John Dickson Carr, The Curse of the Bronze Lamp (1945)