different between juggle vs sleight

English

Etymology

From Middle English jogelen, partly a back-formation of Middle English jogeler (“juggler”), and partly a borrowing from Old French jogler, jongler (“to have fun with someone”), a conflation of Latin jocul?ri (“to jest; joke”) and Old French jangler (“to regale; entertain; have fun; trifle with; tease; mess around; gossip; boast; meddle”), from Frankish *jangal?n (“to chit-chat with; gossip”), akin to Middle Dutch jankelen (“to murmur; whisper; mumble; grumble”), frequentative of Middle Dutch janken (“to moan; groan; complain”). Related also to Middle Low German janken (“to sigh; moan; lament”), Dutch jengelen (“to whine; whimper”) Dutch janken (“to whine; wimper”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d????l/

• Rhymes: -???l

Verb

juggle (third-person singular simple present juggles, present participle juggling, simple past and past participle juggled)

1. To manipulate objects, such as balls, clubs, beanbags, rings, etc. in an artful or artistic manner. Juggling may also include assorted other circus skills such as the diabolo, devil sticks, hat, and cigar box manipulation as well.

   She can juggle flaming torches.

2. To handle or manage many tasks at once.

   He juggled home, school, and work for two years.

3. (transitive, intransitive) To deceive by trick or artifice.
4. (intransitive, archaic) To joke or jest.
5. (intransitive, archaic) To perform magic tricks.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

juggle (plural juggles)

1. (juggling) The act of throwing and catching each prop at least twice, as opposed to a flash.
2. The handling or managing of many tasks at once.
   • 2018, Catherine Blyth, Enjoy Time (page 100)

     Quit the juggle and monotask.

3. (archaic) The performance of a magic trick.
4. (archaic) A deceit or imposture.

Translations

See also

• too many balls in the air

English

Etymology

From Middle English sleight, sleght, sleythe, from Old Norse slœgð (“cunning”), from Proto-Germanic *sl?giþ?, from *sl?giz (“cunning”) (whence English sly). Doublet of slöjd/sloyd.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sla?t/
• Rhymes: -a?t
• Homophones: slight

Noun

sleight (countable and uncountable, plural sleights)

1. Cunning; craft; artful practice.
2. An artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that the manner of performance escapes observation.
3. Dexterous practice; dexterity; skill.

Related terms

• sleight of hand
• sleightly
• sleighty

Translations

Anagrams

• Leights

Middle English

Etymology 1

Adjective

sleight

1. Alternative form of slight

Etymology 2

From Old Norse slœgð, from Proto-Germanic *sl?giþ?; equivalent to sly +? -th.

Alternative forms

• sleght, sleythe, sle?þe, sliþe, sleighte, scleighte, sleiht, sleþþe, sleyþe, slight, sle?t, slei?t, sly?t, sleigþe, sleygt, sleyt, sleiþe, sleyhte, slithe, sli?þe, slyghte, scli?t, sleihte, sleyght, sleyghte, slet, sley?te, sleyte, sli?t

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /slixt/, /sl?i?xt/, /sl?i?ð/

Noun

sleight (plural sleightes)

1. Wit, shrewdness, judiciousness; the state of being wise.
2. Adeptness, expertise; knowledge in a certain area.
3. Tactics, plans, preparation; the act of readying.
4. A tactic, approach, method, or accomplishment.
5. Work, labour, might; that which is expended on a task.
6. Detail; the finer or more intricate points of something.
7. Cunning, sleight; craft; artful practice.
8. An artful or deceiving trick; a sly artifice.
9. (rare) Something of extreme attractiveness.

Derived terms

• sleighty
• sleightly

Descendants

• English: sleight
• Scots: slicht

References

• “sleight, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-06-05.

Adjective

sleight

1. Judicious, considered, shrewd; having or indicative of great wisdom.
2. Sly, artful, wily; employing or being an example of deception.

References

• “sleight, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-06-05.

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English slight, from Old English sliht.

Adjective

sleight

1. slight

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN