juggle

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  1. transitive verb To keep (two or more objects) in the air at one time by alternately tossing and catching them.
  2. transitive verb To have difficulty holding; balance insecurely: juggled the ball but finally caught it; shook hands while juggling a cookie and a teacup.
  3. transitive verb To keep (more than two activities, for example) in motion or progress at one time: managed to juggle a full-time job and homemaking.
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  • The corn-curer who taught me to juggle, also showed me a very curious trick, consisting in thrusting a small nail into the right eye, which is then made to pass into the left eye, thence into the mouth, and end by returning into the right eye. —  Memoirs of Robert-Houdin
  • With all the responsibilities many women juggle, there is often no time for romance, and in many cases, even less desire.
  • In other words, he knows there's a lot to juggle -- and he enumerates them: gratitude to relief agencies, of course. —  Wheat & Weeds
  • If you have several sets of characters and locations to juggle, your plan needs to include the passage of time in the story. —  Writer Unboxed
  • Help Wanted has the player doing various job-themed mini-games by using the Wii Remote to do things like roast kebobs, juggle, and net fish.
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  1. Middle English jogelen, to entertain by performing tricks, from Old French jogler, from Latin ioculārī, to jest, from ioculus, diminutive of iocus, joke; see yek- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English juglen, jogelen, juggle, play false, from Old French jogler, French jongler = Italian giocolare, juggle, from Latin joculari, jest, joke, Middle Latin also play tricks, juggle, from joculus, diminutive of jocus, a jest, joke; see joke, jocular.
  2. from juggle, v.
  3. Cf. joggle, n.
 

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