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Definition: Juggle |
JuggleNoun1. The act of rearranging things to give a misleading impression. 2. Throwing and catching several objects simultaneously. Verb1. 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: JuggleSynonyms: juggling (n), beguile (v), hoodwink (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Juggle |
| English words defined with "juggle": fumble ♦ Juggled. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "juggle": juggling eggs. (references) |
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Lyrics | And if they like to juggle give em long john's balls (Southern Hospitality; performing artist: Ludacris) | |
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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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 73.2% | 71 | 39,674 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 19.59% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Noun (singular) | 7.22% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 97 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency 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. | |
| 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. | ||
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) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "juggle" (pronounced ju"gul) |
| 4 | -u" g u l | struggle, smuggle, snuggle. |
| 3 | -g u l | algal, 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. | ||
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. | |
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