Emily Dickinson Lexicon

JUG'GLE, v.i. [D. guichelen or goochelen; G. gaukeln; It. giocolare; Dan. gögler, to juggle; giekker, to joke; Sw. gäck, a jester; gäcka, to mock, to make sport; L. joculor, to jest, from jocus, a joke; jocor, to joke which coincides with the Sp. and Port. jugar, to play, to sport; Fr. jouer, contracted. It is certain that joke and jocular, and probable that joy, are from the same root as juggle; perhaps Ch. חוך hukk, or chuk, to laugh, to play, to sport. Class Gk, No. 18.]

1. To play tricks by slight of hand; to amuse and make sport by tricks, which make a false show of extraordinary powers.
2. To practice artifice or imposture. Be these juggling fiends no more believed. – Shak.