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Juggling   /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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"Juggling" Quotes from Famous Books



... had the Thiepval task in hand I had first known at Uskub in Macedonia in the days of the Macedonian revolution, when Hilmi Pasha was juggling with the Powers of Europe and autonomy—days which seem far away. A lieutenant then, Howell had an assignment from The Times, while home on leave from India, in order to make a study of the Balkan situation. In our walks around Uskub as ...
— My Second Year of the War • Frederick Palmer

... a million women in overalls doing the work of a million men. We saw them ploughing, juggling steel bars, making shells, running engines, stoking furnaces, handling freight. But to these two American men, at that time, the thing at which these labouring women were employed was dreadful ...
— Half Portions • Edna Ferber

... Association for reform in the method of paying firemen and placers; his ability was everywhere recognised. At the same time, however, the Five Towns looked askance at him. Rumour revived, and said that he could not keep up his juggling performance for ever. He was known to have speculated heavily for a rise in the shares of a great brewery which had falsified the prophecies of its founders when they benevolently sold it to the investing public. ...
— Leonora • Arnold Bennett

... to my office, and thence by information from, Mr. Ackworth I went down to Woolwich, and mustered the three East India ships that lie there, believing that there is great-juggling between the Pursers and Clerks of the Cheque in cheating the King of the wages and victuals of men that do not give attendance, and I found very few on board. So to the yard, and there mustered the yard, and found many faults, ...
— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys

... horizontal grass blade, her head resting against the blade so as to brace the body in position. Here she would continue to hold the male beneath her for a little time, until the process was finished. The male, meanwhile, would be rolling the balloon about in a variety of positions, juggling with it, one might almost say. After the male and female parted company, the male immediately dropped the balloon upon the ground, and it was greedily seized by ants. No illustration could properly show the ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis


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