juggins
[juhg-inz]
- a simpleton.
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Origin of juggins
First recorded in 1835–45; origin uncertain
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He'll borrow money from any juggins who is ass enough to lend it to him.
The Opal SerpentFergus Hume
Go to sleep, Juggins, old man, the tapioca has gone to your head.
In Court and KampongHugh Clifford
It was new to Juggins, and it used to give him awful gripes, but he stuck to it like a man.
In Court and KampongHugh Clifford
And Dennis yelled: "Bob, you juggins, do you want to do the lot of us in?"
With Haig on the SommeD. H. Parry
To do this decently Juggins decided to make a carpenter's bench.
Behind the BeyondStephen Leacock
juggins
- British informal a silly person; simpleton
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Word Origin
C19: special use of the surname Juggins
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