shecoonery

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

A whimsical corruption of the word chicanery, used at the South.


This town's got a monstrous bad name for meanery and shecoonery of all sorts.--Chronicles of Pineville, p. 47.

Among other topics, he dwelt upon the verdancy of his neighbors, and the shecoonery which had been practised upon them.--Ibid. p. 48.