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jugglery

American  
[juhg-luh-ree] / ˈdʒʌg lə ri /

noun

plural

juggleries
  1. the art or practice of a juggler, especially sleight of hand.

  2. the performance of juggling feats.

  3. any trickery or deception.


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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Secretary of Commerce Hoover grew downright irritated last week at the jugglery of the German-French potash monopoly.

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

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

There were quieter expeditions ashore, other days, with the Master Herbal who taught the ways and properties of things that grow; and the Master Hand taught sleight and jugglery and the lesser arts of Changing.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin