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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That did not end the amazing jugglery, for a few days later the Stevens Hotel gave notes to Illinois Life not in exchange for the third mortgage but for $700,000 cash.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cried another: "Let us never forget . . . the manipulations, financial jugglery, or what some would term jiggery-pokery."
From Time Magazine Archive
Secretary of Commerce Hoover grew downright irritated last week at the jugglery of the German-French potash monopoly.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is no limit to this sort of verbal jugglery.
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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