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▪ I. juggle, v.|ˈdʒʌg(ə)l|
Forms: 4–5 iogly(n, 4–6 iogel, 5 iugille, 6 iogyl(l, iuggel, -yll, iugle, iugul, 6–7 iuggle, 7 jugle, 7– juggle.
[ME. a. OF. jogler, jugler (later jougler) = It. giocolare:—late L. joculāre for L. joculārī to jest.]
†1. intr. To act as a juggler (sense 1); to amuse or entertain people with jesting, buffoonery, tricks, etc. Obs.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xiii. 232, I can noither..Iape ne iogly [1393 C. xvi. 207 Iapen ne Iogelen] ne gentlych pype. 1483Cath. Angl. 199/1 To Iugille, ioculari. 1608R. Armin Nest Ninn. 47 Will Sommers watcht to disgrace him, when he was jugling and jesting before the king.
2. To practise the skill or art of a juggler (sense 2) in magic or legerdemain; to play conjuring tricks; to conjure.
c1440Promp. Parv. 263/2 Ioglyn (K., P. iogelyn), prestigior. 1530Palsgr. 592/2 Mathewe iogyled the cleanest of any man in our dayes. 1727De Foe Hist. Appar. ix. 187 He [the Devil] can juggle and play scurvy tricks. 1883Standard 21 June 2/2 He..painted, acted, juggled and mesmerised. 1885R. L. Stevenson in Contemp. Rev. Apr. 550 The conjurer juggles with two oranges.
3. transf. and fig. To play tricks so as to cheat or deceive; to practise artifice or deceit with.
1528Tindale Obed. Chr. Man To Rdr., Why shall I not se the scripture..that I maye know whether thyne interpretacion be the right sence, or whether thou iuglest and drawest the scripture violently vnto thy carnall and fleshly purpose? 1533Frith Another Bk. agst. Rastell Wks. (1572) 63 Here he iuggeleth wyth me and would make me beleue that he tossed me mine own ball agayne, but when I beholde it, I perceaue it to be none of mine. 1632Lithgow Trav. x. 437 A grievous thing to see incapable men, to jugle with the high mysteries of mans salvation. 1660Milton Griffith's Serm. Wks. (1851) 394 Prime Teachers, who to thir credulous Audience dare thus juggle with Scripture. 1821Lamb Elia Ser. i. Mackery End, She never juggles or plays tricks with her understanding.
4. trans. To deceive by jugglery; to deceive, trick, cheat, beguile; to cheat out of something.
1531Tindale Exp. 1 John ii. 33 God can not but let the deuell..iuggle oure eyes to confirme us in blyndnesse. 1533― Lord's Sup. 26 He neuer thus iugled nor mocked hys so dearely beloued discyples. a1654Selden Table-t. (Arb.) 29 If Men at first were juggled out of their Estates, yet they are rightly their Successours. a1764Lloyd The Poet Poet. Wks. 1774 II. 19 When near his latest breath The patient fain would juggle death. 1850Blackie æschylus I. Pref. 21 The Spirit of Error..juggles the plain understandings of men that they become the sport of every quibble. 1866Bright Sp., Reform 13 Mar. (1876) 344 They have no system of compounding which would juggle men out of their franchise.
b. To bring, get, convey, or change (away, into, etc.) by, or as by, magic or conjuring, or by trickery or deceit.
c1590Greene Fr. Bacon i. 99 He can make women of devils and he can juggle cats into costermongers. 1618Bolton Florus iii. xix. (1636) 233 He juggled a nut into his mouth, filled with brimstone, and fire, and..spat fire as he spake. 1813Jefferson Writ. (1830) IV. 216 Our debt was juggled from forty-three up to eighty millions. 18..G. Meredith Poems, Juggling Jerry viii, Now from his old girl he's juggled away.
Hence ˈjuggled ppl. a., done by jugglery.
1536Protest. Lower Ho. Convoc. in Strype Eccl. Mem. (1721) I. App. lxxiii. 179 Item, That halowed water is but iogelled water. 1618T. Gainsford P. Warbeck in Select. fr. Harl. Misc. (1793) 71 The fame of this juggled miracle was..blown over Flanders.
Add:[2.] b. spec. To toss and catch several objects continuously, keeping at least one of them in the air while handling the others. Also, to toss an object, etc., from hand to hand with dexterity; (of two or more persons) to toss an object, etc., back and forth between them. Freq. const. with.
1892Routledge's Bk. of Circus 56 All acrobats can juggle. Ibid. 58 It is very difficult to juggle with articles of various..weights at the same time. 1901Playgoer Oct. 15/2 Before he left the cradle, he juggled with his feeding bottle. 1921J. E. T. Clark Juggling 98 Learning to juggle is like learning to walk on stilts. 1930H. S. Walpole Rogue Herries 1. 131 A company of Chinese people travelling with the Fair..juggled with gold balls and swallowed silver swords. 1938N. Streatfield Circus is Coming vii. 117 The first Risley who had the idea of juggling with a real boy. 1975R. Davies World of Wonders (1977) ii.. iii. 185 He can't juggle and he can't walk rope.
c. transf. Const. with. To manipulate something (or several often conflicting things simultaneously), esp. with ingenuity or skill.
1897Strand XIV. 95/2 The Burmese are born jugglers; they juggle with everything..even their finances. 1902Kipling in Windsor Mag. Dec. 13/2 Kysh's hands juggling with the levers behind the discreet backward sloping dash. 1927E. Bowen Hotel ix. 96 Happiness, she said to herself, is not to be solicited, but coming, for however short a time, comes with an appearance of finality, to be juggled with offhand. 1935D. L. Sayers Gaudy Night xviii. 382 How dared he pick up her word ‘sleep’ and use it four times in as many lines, and each time in a different foot, as though juggling with the accent-shift were child's play? 1964Mod. Law Rev. XXVII. 264 To juggle with the language of the forms of action and say that the plaintiff's action sounds in tort not contract, cannot alter the fact. 1982A. Price Old ‘Vengeful’ vi. 87 The child juggled with her burdens the better to display the garment.
[4.] c. Baseball. Of a fielder: to mishandle (a ball) without dropping it, thereby failing to prevent a runner reaching a base.
1873N.Y. Herald 13 Sept. 5/3 Fulmer tried Pearce with a scorching hot grounder, but Dickey juggled it and Devlin went to second. 1889Century Mag. Oct. 833/1 A short-stop or third baseman finds that he has no time to ‘juggle’ the ball and then throw the man out. 1911Z. Grey Young Pitcher vi. 63 Raymond..pounced upon the ball... Nothing got past him, but he juggled the ball. 1993Chicago Tribune 29 June iv. 3/4 He scored when Tony Gwynn doubled and Sosa juggled that ball.
d. To toss and catch (a number of objects) continously, keeping at least one of them in the air while handling the others. Also, to toss (an object, etc.) from hand to hand with dexterity; (of two or more persons) to toss (an object, etc.) back and forth between them.
1897Strand Mag. XIII. 94/2 He juggles a heavy knife, a fork, and a turnip. 1909H. R. Cort Donakin Circus 10 They could juggle balls while dancing a waltz. 1921J. E. T. Clark Juggling 98 It is advisable for the novice to acquire skill in..juggling various and diverse articles. 1959F. Astaire Steps in Time iv. 26 The older Japanese would lie on their backs..and juggle my pal back and forth with their feet. 1981W. Soyinka Aké iii. 37 The man in the lead juggled an enormous mace. 1984J. Updike Witches of Eastwick iii. 240 Van Horne juggled first three, then four, then five tangerines.
e. trans. To handle or combine (something or several things) adroitly; to balance (one thing) with another.
1935G. Greene in Spectator 9 Aug. 222/2 What matters is the witty dialogue, the quick intelligent acting of Mr. Tone and Miss Merkel, who juggle death so expertly and amusingly between them. 1985G. Ehrlich Solace of Open Spaces 98 They have to know how to do many things—from juggling the futures market to overhauling a tractor or curing viral scours..in calves. 1990OnSat 17–23 June 9/1 Bachelor dads have juggled leading their own lives with being a good influence on their dependents.
▪ II. juggle, n.1|ˈdʒʌg(ə)l|
[f. juggle v.]
A piece of juggling; a trick or act of skill performed by legerdemain; a conjurer's trick, esp. one claiming to be done by magic or occult influence; hence, an act of deception, an imposture, cheat, fraud.
1664H. More Myst. Iniq. ii. i. xvii. 327 Whether by the juggle of their Priests or the assistence of some officious Dæmons, there were several Miracles and strange Cures conceived to be done in the Temples. 1669W. Simpson Hydrol. Chym. 168 It's a meer juggle upon the senses. 1686tr. Claude's Persec. Fr. Protest. 3 Juggles and amusing Tricks. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. I. 16 The Money he had got by imposing on the Vulgar with his Juggles. 1727De Foe Syst. Magic i. iii. (1840) 62 At first the Magicians satisfied the curiosity of the people by juggle and trick. 1808Scott Marm. vi. viii, Or featly was some juggle played. 1871Freeman Hist. Ess. Ser. i. vii. 200 By one of the most disreputable of juggles, France obtained the Italian Island of Corsica. 1882T. A. Guthrie Vice Versa iii. (ed. 4) 41 As if he were actually the schoolboy some hideous juggle had made him appear.
▪ III. ˈjuggle, n.2
[Cf. joggle.]
(See quot.)
1875Knight Dict. Mech., Juggle, a block of timber cut to a length, either in the round or split. |