JUGGLERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jugglery mean? 

• JUGGLERY (noun)
  The noun JUGGLERY has 2 senses:

1. artful trickery designed to achieve an end

2. the performance of a juggler

  Familiarity information: JUGGLERY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JUGGLERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Artful trickery designed to achieve an end

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

the senator's tax program was mere jugglery

Hypernyms ("jugglery" is a kind of...):

chicane; chicanery; guile; shenanigan; trickery; wile (the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them))

Derivation:

juggle (influence by slyness)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The performance of a juggler

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("jugglery" is a kind of...):

maneuver; manoeuvre; play (a deliberate coordinated movement requiring dexterity and skill)

Derivation:

juggle (throw, catch, and keep in the air several things simultaneously)

 Context examples 

He tried to imagine himself she, gazing into those eyes of his, but failed in the jugglery.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was sheer jugglery of fate.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He charged them with word-jugglery, with reasoning from words to theory instead of from facts to theory.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)