Sc. and north. In 6 ioukrie, 7 jewkry, 8 jouckry, 9 jookery, joukry, -rey. [f. JOUK v.2: see -ERY.] Dodging; ‘underhand dealing, trickery’; ‘deceit’ (Jam.).
1563. Ressoning betuix Crosraguell & Knox, B iij b (Jam.). Keip your promes, and pretex na ioukrie be my Lorde of Cassillis writing.
1822. Galt, Provost, v. 38. I was so displeased by the jookerie of the bailie … that we had no correspondence on public affairs, till long after.
b. Comb. Joukery-cookery [cf. COOK v.1 3 c], ‘artful management’ (Jam.); joukery-pawkery [PAWKY], clever trickery, jugglery, legerdemain.
1822. Galt, Sir A. Wylie, I. xxi. 182. As ye’re acquaint wi’ a’ the *jookery-cookery of newsmaking. Ibid., Provost, xiv. 112. Nothing could be more manifest than that there was some jookerie cookerie in this affair.
1686. G. Stuart, Joco-Ser. Disc., 59. Deil fetcht was it but *Jewkrypawkry.
1785. R. Forbes, Poems Buchan Dial., Ajax’s Speech, 5. The sin o’ Nauplius … His jouckry-pauckry finding out, To weir did him compell.
1816. Scott, Bl. Dwarf, x. That there has been some jookery-paukery of Satan’s in a’ this.
1871. W. Alexander, Johnny Gibb, xxxvii. There’s been mair joukry-pawkry wi’ Dawvid nor ye’re avaar o’.
