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jug⋅gle

[juhg-uh

verb, -gled, -gling, noun

–verb (used with object)

1.	to keep (several objects, as balls, plates, tenpins, or knives) in continuous motion in the air simultaneously by tossing and catching.

2.	to hold, catch, carry, or balance precariously; almost drop and then catch hold again: The center fielder juggled the ball but finally made the catch.

3.	to alter or manipulate in order to deceive, as by subterfuge or trickery: to juggle the business accounts; to juggle the facts.

4.	to manage or alternate the requirements of (two or more tasks, responsibilities, activities, etc.) so as to handle each adequately: to juggle the obligations of job and school.

–verb (used without object)

5.	to perform feats of manual or bodily dexterity, as tossing up and keeping in continuous motion a number of balls, plates, knives, etc.

6.	to use artifice or trickery.

–noun

7.	the act or fact of juggling.

Origin:
1350–1400; ME jog(e)len < OF jogler to serve as buffoon or jester < LL joculāre to joke (r. L joculārī), equiv. to L jocul(us) (joc(us) joke + -ulus -ule ) + -āre inf. suffix

Related forms:

jug⋅gling⋅ly, adverb

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jug·gle (jŭg'əl)

v. jug·gled, jug·gling, jug·gles

v. tr.

To keep (two or more objects) in the air at one time by alternately tossing and catching them.
To have difficulty holding; balance insecurely: juggled the ball but finally caught it; shook hands while juggling a cookie and a teacup.
To keep (more than two activities, for example) in motion or progress at one time: managed to juggle a full-time job and homemaking.
To manipulate in order to deceive: juggle figures in a ledger.

v. intr.

To juggle objects or perform other tricks of manual dexterity.
To make rapid motions or manipulations: juggled with the controls on the television to improve the picture.
To use trickery; practice deception.

The act of juggling.
Trickery for a dishonest end.

[Middle English jogelen, to entertain by performing tricks, from Old French jogler, from Latin ioculārī, to jest, from ioculus, diminutive of iocus, joke; see yek- in Indo-European roots.]

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Juggle

Jug"gle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Juggled; p. pr. & vb. n. Juggling.] [OE. juglen; cf. OF. jogler, jugler, F. jongler. See Juggler.]

1. To play tricks by sleight of hand; to cause amusement and sport by tricks of skill; to conjure.

2. To practice artifice or imposture.

Be these juggling fiends no more believed. --Shak.

Juggle

Jug"gle\, v. t. To deceive by trick or artifice.

Is't possible the spells of France should juggle Men into such strange mysteries? --Shak.

Juggle

Jug"gle\, n. 1. A trick by sleight of hand.

2. An imposture; a deception. --Tennyson.

A juggle of state to cozen the people. --Tillotson.

3. A block of timber cut to a length, either in the round or split. --Knight.

Language Translation for : juggle

Spanish: hacer juegos malabares,

German: jonglieren,

Japanese: 曲芸をする

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