jugglery

[ juhg-luh-ree ]

noun

, plural jug·gler·ies.

1. the art or practice of a juggler, especially sleight of hand.
2. the performance of juggling feats.
3. any trickery or deception.

Word History and Origins

Origin of jugglery¹

1250–1300; Middle English jogel ( e ) rie < Old French joglerie, equivalent to jogler juggler + -ie -y ³

Example Sentences

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 Literature

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 Literature

He had gone upstairs to lie down, as he reported later, “before all these astounding miracles, or jugglery, took place.”

From Literature

“This emotion seemed genuine, and we were assured that it was, although other parts of their religious services, or rather feats, appear to be accompanied with jugglery and deception,” he wrote in an 1890 memoir.

From New York Times

Soothsayers and fortune-tellers were consulted to see if by their jugglery they could not reveal the word that had been hidden away so carefully so that none should know its secret.

From Project Gutenberg