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Definition of Juggins
1. a simpleton [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Juggins
Literary usage of Juggins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1901)
"The extract which follows refers to i meeting of colliers to protest against "
tommy "; one of them, named " juggins," deprecates strong measures :— "The ..."
2. Behind the Beyond: And Other Contributions to Human Knowledge by Stephen Leacock, A. H. Fish (1913)
"Somebody was trying to nail up a board on a tree for a shelf and juggins ...
Then juggins looked round for a saw, and when he got it he had hardly made more ..."
3. Reports of Cases Decided by the English Courts: With Notes and References to by Nathaniel Cleveland Moak, John Thomas Cook (1882)
"juggins. 1880 [5 Queen's Bench Division, 138.] Jan. 13, 1880. ... The defence
set up by the defendant juggins is that he was only a surety for Pratt, ..."
4. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1887)
"rippin' " it is thus to sport and to spoof," As a Jubilee juggins with plenty
of " oof. ... But, Jubilee juggins, beware of the day, In the Major. ..."
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