[f. as prec. + -ERY.] Zigzag course or proceeding (lit. and fig.).
In first quot. with allusion to ZIGZAG sb. 3 a.
1760. Sterne, Tr. Shandy, III. iii. The transverse zigzaggery of my father’s approaches towards it [sc. his coat pocket].
1797. Mrs. A. M. Bennett, Beggar Girl (1813), II. 248. One of those whimsical beings who hated the zig-zaggery of worldly wisdom.
1885. Pall Mall Gaz., 31 Aug., 4/2. The zigzaggery of the English Foreign Office is to it a cause of embarrassment.
