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juggle
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. influence by slyness [syn: beguile , hoodwink ] manipulate by or as if by moving around components; "juggle an account so as to hide a deficit" deal with simultaneously; "She had to juggle her job and her children" throw, catch, and keep in the air several ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Juggle \Jug"gle\, n. A trick by sleight of hand. An imposture; a deception. --Tennyson. A juggle of state to cozen the people. --Tillotson. A block of timber cut to a length, either in the round or split. --Knight.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "entertain by clowning or doing tricks," back-formation from juggler and in part from Old French jogler "play tricks, sing songs," from Late Latin ioculare (source of Italian giocolare ), from Latin ioculari "to jest" (see jocular ). Related: ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (qualifier: juggling) To throw and catch each prop at least twice, as a opposed to a flash#Noun. vb. 1 To manipulate objects, such as balls, clubs, beanbags, rings, etc. in an artful or artistic manner. Juggling may also include assorted other circus ...
Usage examples of juggle.
Dressed in gaudy tatters and besmudged with dirt, Alec watched gleefully as Seregil juggled, walked ropes, and mugged for the crowd.
Rubber Bible to hand as the fearless author juggles with triple points or the properties of ammonial ice eutectics.
The Aphorist read himself so well, that to juggle with himself was a necessity.
In the center, a skinny, gray-bearded man dressed only in ragged knee breeches was juggling four belaying pins.
I drank a bottle of excellent Rhenish wine which Catinella had juggled away to treat her intended husband, and which the worthy fellow thought could not have a better destination than to treat his future cousin.
Lan would not let the gleeman play harp or fluteno need to rouse the countryside, the Warder saidbut Thom juggled and told stories.
I called on him, and the offer of a sequin, together with my threats, compelled him to confess that he had been paid for his work by Signor Demetrio, a Greek, dealer in spices, a good and amiable man of between forty-five and fifty years, on whom I never played any trick, except in the case of a pretty, young servant girl whom he was courting, and whom I had juggled from him.
In a mirthful moment Canano said he had known me for seventeen years, his acquaintance dating from the time I had juggled a professional gamester, calling himself Count Celi, out of a pretty ballet-girl whom I had taken to Mantua.
Even under the sort of stress that would render another woman insensible, Bera ran a fearsomely orderly household, juggling tasks as disparate as descaling a fish with one hand while manning a heddle with the other with all the ease of Silva Lighthand at her best.
But maybe, the Kraut thought suddenly, just maybe there was a way he could juggle it.
How much nearer have we come to the secret of force than Lully and Geber and the whole crew of juggling alchemists?
He had juggled the books to disguise profits from a neuropeptide and other products sold to a Swiss firm.
The door had been a pig to rehang and she had ended up trying to read the book, take the weight of the door, and juggle with a manual screwdriver - because of course there was no electricity.
He sat juggling the paper cups unhandily on his lap while she smoothed her skirt over her knees.
Trying to feel deeply and think perfectly clearly at the same time was like simultaneously juggling six Indian clubs while riding a unicycle backward along a high wire.