Etymology
Origin of jugglery
1250–1300; Middle English jogel ( e ) rie < Old French joglerie, equivalent to jogler juggler + -ie -y 3
Example Sentences
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There is no limit to this sort of verbal jugglery.
From Time Magazine Archive
This kind of jugglery between the balloons of fiction and the cannonballs of fact made Unamuno an enigmatic figure�and in Catholic, reactionary Spain, a suspect and controversial one.
From Time Magazine Archive
Far from being mere slices of life, or glimpses of fantasy or of psychological freaks, they demonstrate once again that the short story is not only for light jugglery.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had rounded up all his jokes and jugglery into an act.
From Time Magazine Archive
Next, a troop of jugglers with polished spheres of gold, which they hurl up high jn flashing flights, and catch, and hurl again, making' fountain-jets of bright jugglery.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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