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Juggle

Definition: Juggle

Juggle

Noun

1. The act of rearranging things to give a misleading impression.

2. Throwing and catching several objects simultaneously.

Verb

1. Influence by slyness.

2. Juggle an account, for example, so as to hide a deficit.

3. Deal with simultaneously: "She had to juggle her job and her children".

4. Throw, catch, and keep in the air several things simultaneously.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "juggle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

 

Synonyms: Juggle

Synonyms: juggling (n), beguile (v), hoodwink (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Juggle

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Cunning

Art, artifice; device, machination; plot; (plan); maneuver, stratagem, dodge, sidestep, artful dodge, wile; trick, trickery; (deception); ruse, ruse de guerre; finesse, side blow, thin end of the wedge, shift, go by, subterfuge, evasion; white lie; (untruth); juggle, tour de force; tricks of the trade, tricks upon travelers; espieglerie; net, trap.

Deception

Trick, cheat, wile, blind, feint, plant, bubble, fetch, catch, chicane, juggle, reach, hocus, bite; card sharping, stacked deck, loaded dice, quick shuffle, double dealing, dealing seconds, dealing from the bottom of the deck; artful dodge, swindle; tricks upon travelers; stratagem; (artifice); confidence trick, fake, hoax; theft; ballot-box stuffing barney, brace game, bunko game, drop game, gum game, panel game; shell game, thimblerig; skin game.

Cog, cog the dice, load the dice, stack the deck; live by one's wits, play at hide and seek; obtain money under false pretenses; (steal); conjure, juggle, practice chicanery; deacon.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Juggle

English words defined with "juggle": fumbleJuggled. (references)
Specialty definitions using "juggle": juggling eggs. (references)

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Modern Usage: Juggle

DomainUsage

Lyrics

And if they like to juggle give em long john's balls (Southern Hospitality; performing artist: Ludacris)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Juggle

DomainTitle

Books

  • Careers and Contingencies: How College Women Juggle With Gender (reference)

  • I Can Juggle (reference)

  • Just Juggle (reference)

  • Managing Multiple Bosses: How to Juggle Priorities, Personalities & Projects, and Make It Look Easy (reference)

  • One, Two, Three Juggle With Me (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • You Can Juggle! In 30 Minutes Or Less (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Juggle

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Non-Fiction Usage: Juggle

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Caregivers " most of whom are women " must juggle child care, jobs, and other responsibilities with caring for relatives with AD who cannot function on their own. As the disease runs its course and the abilities of people with AD steadily decline, family members face difficult decisions about the long-term care of their loved ones. Frequently, they have no choice but to place their relative in a nursing home. The numbers of caregivers " and their needs " can be expected to grow significantly as the population ages and as the number of people with AD increases. (references)

Economic History

Ireland

With upcoming EU legislation on genetically modified organisms, it remains to be seen how importers juggle demand with probably higher prices if genetic testing becomes the norm. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Juggle

"Juggle" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 73.20% of the time. "Juggle" is used about 97 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)73.2%7139,674
Lexical Verb (base form)19.59%1980,337
Noun (singular)7.22%7133,076
                    Total100.00%97N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Juggle

Expressions using "juggle": juggle the accounts juggle with juggle with facts juggle with smb.. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "juggle": juggle-in.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Juggle

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

juggle

198

learn how to juggle

19

ball juggle soccer

6

juggle learning

4

fire juggle

3

1.2.1 juggle mouse

3

disc juggle

3

boob juggle

3

juggle ball

3

beat juggle

2

clown juggle

2

club juggle

2

disk juggle

2

cat juggle

2

art juggle

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Juggle

Language Translations for "juggle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

mashtroj (bamboozle, befool, beguile, besot, bilk, cheat, chicane, chisel, cozen, deceive, defalcate, defraud, delude, diddle, do, finagle, fleece, flimflam, fob, fool, fudge, gyp, hocus, hoodwink, hose, impose, jockey, lead on, mislead, mump, nobble, overreach, palter, queer, ready up, shortchange, swindle, take advantage of, take for a ride), manovroj (steer, work), bëj marifete, bëj lojra shkathtësie. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏تلاعب (cook, doctor, jugglery, manipulate, manipulation, monkey with, play, rig, tamper, wangle), ‏شعوذ (conjure, mountebank, quack). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

хитра измама, фокус (focus, trick), мамя (cozen, deceive, dupe, fiddle, flim-flam, gag, gouge, hocus, hoodwink, impose, jockey, mock, play along, play possum with, rook, shark, stick, string along, take, twist, victimize), мистификация (jugglery, mystification, quiz), жонгльорство (hocus pocus, jugglery, legerdemain, sleight of hand), жонгльорски номер, жонглирам (hocus pocus), правя фокуси (conjure, hocus pocus), подмамвам (allure, bait, cajole, carny, decoy, entice, lure on), изопачаване на истината. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

變戲法 (conjure, perform conjuring tricks), 玩杂耍 (Juggled, juggling). (various references)

   

Czech

  

podvádìt (betray, deceive, double cross, finagle, mock, sharp, trick), balamutit, žonglovat. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

jongleren. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

ĵongli. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

چشم بندی , حقه بازی (Cog, Legerdemain, Quackery, Underhand), تردستی (Agility, Dexterity, Jugglery, Legerdemain, Skill, Sleight, Versatility), شیادی (Abusive), شعبده (Legerdemain). (various references)

   

French

  

jongler. (various references)

   

German

  

jonglieren (juggling). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κάνω ταχυδακτυλουργίεσ, κάνω ταχυδακτυλουργίες, κάνω ταχυδαχτυλουργία, ξεγελώ (bamboozle, bite, deceive, delude, diddle, euchre, fake out, have on, hocus, hoodwink, inveigle, outsmart, outwit, spoof, trick), απατώ (bamboozle, beguile, bilk, bluff, cheat, chisel, circumvent, con, deceive, dupe, fool, gouge, gyp, hoax, hoodwink, humbug, impose, jockey, rook, sham, shave, shortchange, spoof, swindle, trick), ταχυδακτυλουργώ, ταχυδακτυλουργία (jugglery, prestidigitation, sleight of hand). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לל"טט, לאחוז את "עי ים (delude, play tricks). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

zsonglõrködik, szemfényvesztést ûz, bûvészkedik (hocus pocus). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

menyulap. (various references)

   

Italian

  

raggirare (bounce, circumvent, cozen, deceive, swindle), gioco di prestigio (jugglery, legerdemain, sleight of hand). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

ジャスミン茶 (jab, jack, jackal, jack-knife, jackpot, JAL PAK, jam, jam bun, jam session, Jamaica, jammer, jamming, Jap, Japan, Japan bashing, Japan Cup, Japan Foundation, Japan shift, Japan Society, Japan Times, Japanese, Japanese English, Japanese management, Japanese smile, Japanesque, Japanologist, Japanology, Japonaiserie, Japonica, jasmine tea, JASRAC, javelin, jazz, jazz band, jazz chorus, jazz dance, jazz festival, jazz life, jazz piano, jazz singer, jazz song, jazzmen, judge, judge paper, judgement, junction, junk, junk accessories, junk art, junk bond, junk food, junkie). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ジャッグル . (various references)

   

Manx

  

jannoo cleasaght. (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

sjonglere. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ugglejay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

truque (artifice, bogie, fake, gag, gammon, gouge, knack, legerdemain, trick), trapaça (chouse, dodge, jiggery-pokery, trick, trickery), prestidigitar, prestidigitação (jugglery, legerdemain, magic, prestidigitation, sleight-of-hand, trick), malabarismo (jugglery, legerdemain), intrujice (foolery, jugglery, spoof, swindle), intrujar (jockey, out-jockey, skin, spoof, trick), fazer prestidigitação, fazer malabarismos, escamotear (palm), enganar (abuse, avoid, bamboozle, befool, beguile, belie, blind, bluff, cheat, chisel, chouse, cod, cozen, deceive, delude, diddle, double, double-cross, duck, dupe, err, fake, falsify, finesse, flimflam, fob, foist, fool, fox, gag, gammon, gouge, green, gull, gyp, ha, have, hocus, hocus-pocus, hoodwink, hum, humbug, impose, inveigle, jink, jockey, lace, lie, lurch, mislead, mock, mystify, out-jockey, overreach, palm, rip off, skin, sklent, spoof, take in, trepan, trick, victimize, wangle, wile), embuste (bubble, cantrip, fake, fancy dress ball, hoax, hocus-pocus, hokey-pokey, humbug, mystification, quiz, snare, spoof, swindle, take-in, trick, trickery, wile), decepção (balk, deception, delusion, disillusion, flop). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

jonglerie (hanky panky, imposture, jugglery, trickery), jongla cu, manipula (control, handle, key, manipulate, manoeuvre, operate, prove), face jonglerii cu, drege (arrange, darn, doctor, Flavor, flavour, mend, piece, readjust, refit, renew, renovate, repair, restore, retouch, season, set to rights, spice, tinker, vamp up), aranja (adjust, arrange, clench, compose, compound, concert, conclude, contrive, dispose, do, do out, engineer, fiddle, fix, fix up, impose, Marshal, order, organize, pose, posture, put in order, put to rights, put up, set, set out, set to rights, settle, size, stage, Stow, straighten, suit, tidy, tidy up, trim), înşela (abuse, bamboozle, beguile, betray, bluff, cheat, chouse, circumvent, cog, con, cozen, cuckold, deceive, defraud, delude, diddle, disappoint, do, do brown, do something crooked, double cross, dupe, fiddle, frustrate, gag, get round, gull, hocus, hoodwink, humbug, impose, jockey, mock, mystify, nobble, out-jockey, pigeon, queer, ramp, rook, sharp, shuffle, swindle, trick, victimize). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

жонглировать. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

manipulisati (manipulate), žonglirati. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

juego malabar, mentira (counterfeit, deceit, deception, falsehood, fib, flam, invention, libel, lie, mendacity, prevarication, story, untruth), hacer trampa con (juggle with), hacer juegos malabares, hacer juegos de manos, falsificar (debase, fabricate, fake, falsify, fiddle, forge, juggle with, misrepresent, rig, trump up), falsear (adulterate, distort, falsify, forge, garble, juggle with, throw out), falsa, arreglar de otro modo (juggle with). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

jonglera. (various references)

   

Thai

  

ตบตา (hoodwink). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yer değiştirmek (change sides, move, switch), topları havaya atıp tutmak, oynamak (act, budge, dance, enact, Frisk, hop, interpret, jig, mess smth. about, monkey, move, perform, place one's bet, play, play around, play at, play on, play upon, play with, playact, portray, represent, shake a leg, toy, work), oynama yapmak (bend, cook, cook up, falsify, juggle with, manipulate), hokkabazlık yapmak (conjure), dengelemek (attemper, balance, cancel out, counterpoise, equalize, equilibrate, level, offset, poise, stabilize). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

фокус (conjury, focus, hocus pocus, pass, sleight), колода (balk, bee-tree, billet, block, chuck, chump, clump, rafter, timber), обман (bam, bamboozle, beguilement, bilk, bluff, bunko, cheat, chouse, circumvention, cozenage, deceit, deception, delusion, do, double cross, foist, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gammon, gouge, guile, hanky panky, hoax, imposture, jugglery, lie, overreach, phoney, phony, pretence, pretense, ruse, sell, sham, swindle, trickery, victimization, wile), обдурювати (befool, bilk, cheat, chouse, cod, cog, counterfeit, deceive, doodle, dupe, flimflam, gull, hoax, hocus, hoodwink, humbug, jockey, prey, put upon, queer, sell short), показувати фокуси (conjure, stunt). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

trò tung hứng (jugglery, prestidigitation), trò múa rối sự lừa bịp, sự lừa gạt (cozenage, deceifulness, delusion, gouge, rig, take-in). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

siwglo. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Juggle

Derivations

Words beginning with "juggle": juggled, juggler, juggleries, jugglers, jugglery, juggles. (additional references)

Words ending with "juggle": rejuggle. (additional references)

Words containing "juggle": rejuggled, rejuggles. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Juggle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Duggleby, jagle, jiggly, jogel, jugglo, jugla, jugle, juglet, kuggle, kugle, ugle. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Juggle"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "juggle" (pronounced ju"gul)
4-u" g u lstruggle, smuggle, snuggle.
3-g u lalgal, angle, antifungal, bagel, bangle, beagle, bedraggle, boggle, Bogle, boondoggle, bugle, centrifugal, commingle, conjugal, dangle, Dingle, disentangle, eagle, entangle, extralegal, finagle, frugal, fungal, gaggle, giggle, goggle, gurgle, haggle, illegal, Spangle, Spiegel, squiggle, straggle, strangle, swingle, tangle, Ingle, intermingle, jangle, jiggle, jingle, jungle, Kugel, legal, madrigal, Mangel, mangle, milligal, mingle, mogul, mongol, Ogle, paralegal, prodigal, rectangle, regal, shingle, single, tingle, toggle, triangle, untangle, wangle, wiggle, wrangle, wriggle.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Juggle

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-g-g-j-l-u"

-2 letters: gleg, glue, glug, luge.

-3 letters: egg, gel, gul, jeu, jug, leg, leu, lug.

-4 letters: el.

 Words containing the letters "e-g-g-j-l-u"
 

+1 letter: juggled, juggler, juggles.

 

+2 letters: jugglers, jugglery, rejuggle.

 

+3 letters: rejuggled, rejuggles.

 

+4 letters: juggleries, rejuggling.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Derivations
13. Rhymes
14. Anagrams
15. Bibliography


  

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