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/dʒˈəgəlɪŋ/ /dʒˈəglɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Juggle v. t.

1.

To deceive by trick or artifice. "Is't possible the spells of France should juggle Men into such strange mysteries?"

2.

To maintain (several objects) in continuous motion in the air at one time by tossing them up with one hand, catching them with the other hand, and passing them from the catching to the tossing hand; variations on this basic motion are also used. Also used figuratively: see senses 3 and 4.

3.

To alter (financial records) secretly for the purpose of theft or deception; as, to juggle the accounts. (Colloq.)

4.

To arrange the performance two tasks or responsibilities at alternate times, so as to be able to do both; as, to juggle the responsibilities of a job and a mother

Juggle v. i. (past & past part. juggled; pres. part. juggling)

1.

To play tricks by sleight of hand; to cause amusement and sport by tricks of skill; to conjure; especially, to maintian several objects in the air at one time by tossing them up with one hand, catching them with the other hand, and passing them from the catching to the tossing hand.

2.

To practice artifice or imposture. "Be these juggling fiends no more believed."

noun

Juggling n.

1.

Jugglery; underhand practice.

2.

The act or process of keeping several objects in the air at one time by tossing them with the hands. See juggle v. t., senses 2, 3, and 4.

adjective

Juggling adj. Cheating; tricky.

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Etymology of 'Juggling'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Juggling" Quotes from Famous Books

... quibbling over the meanings of terms can take the place of real arguments. Even if the subject of debate is so stated that this is possible, any self-respecting debater will meet the question at issue fairly and squarely, preferring defeat to a victory won by juggling with the meanings ...

— Composition-Rhetoric • Stratton D. Brooks

... Brown placidly, "is learning to be a professional conjurer, as well as juggler, ventriloquist, and expert in the rope trick. The conjuring explains the hat. It is without traces of hair, not because it is worn by the prematurely bald Mr Glass, but because it has never been worn by anybody. The juggling explains the three glasses, which Todhunter was teaching himself to throw up and catch in rotation. But, being only at the stage of practice, he smashed one glass against the ceiling. And the juggling also explains the sword, which it was Mr Todhunter's professional pride and duty to swallow. ...

— The Wisdom of Father Brown • G. K. Chesterton

... had finished, Lagardere caught him up: "Why not? Some actors are as honest as bandits. I was no bad mummer, sirs. I could counterfeit any one of you now so that your mother wouldn't know the cheat. And my master made me an athlete, too; taught me every trick of wrestling and tumbling and juggling with the muscles. That is why I was able to tumble you about so pleasantly just now. I should have been a mountebank to this ...

— The Duke's Motto - A Melodrama • Justin Huntly McCarthy

... the subject of much acid criticism. But in time of war it is the victorious battalions that count, not the wiles of a Talleyrand nor of a Great Elchi. The failure in the Dardanelles and the Russian collapse settled our hash in the Near East for the time being, and no amount of diplomatic juggling could have effectually repaired ...

— Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 • Charles Edward Callwell

... any creature of human understanding, after having been diverted for three hours with the production of a great genius, to sit for three more and see a set of people running about the stage after one another, without speaking one syllable, and playing several juggling tricks, which are done at Fawks's after a much better manner; and for this, sir, the town does not only pay additional prices, but loses several fine parts of its best authors, which are cut out to make room ...

— Miscellanies, Volume 2 (from Works, Volume 12) • Henry Fielding

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