Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A dull fellow; a chump.

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  • noun A fool; someone very credulous or easily fooled.

Etymologies

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Origin uncertain; perhaps an extended use of Juggins, originally a plebian surname.

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Examples

  • "And the little juggins ran away, on the train last night?"

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • He felt an awful fool, a — what was it? — a juggins, ah! — a Juggernaut.

    The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll Herbert George 2006

  • "And the little juggins ran away, on the train last night?"

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

  • "And the little juggins ran away, on the train last night?"

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

  • Now I _don't_ like to look like a juggins, it's wot I carn't stand, s'elp my bob;

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 7, 1892 Various

  • "Don't be a juggins, Jenny," he remarked, in a dispassionate way that made her feel helpless.

    Nocturne Frank Swinnerton 1933

  • O Rupert, my silly little juggins, you're as dense as a vegetable marrow.

    Tell England A Study in a Generation Ernest Raymond 1931

  • 'Look here, boss,' I said to old man Moss -- the proprietor, you know -- 'You're a bit of a juggins to go on working with so much money under here,' -- and I pointed to the floor.

    The Sorcery Club Elliott O'Donnell 1918

  • Dennis yelled: "Bob, you juggins, do you want to do the lot of us in?"

    With Haig on the Somme D. H. Parry 1915

  • 'You juggins,' I said, 'do you think a burglar who wants to get into a house waits till a cab's going past and then gives a acrobatic exhibition to attract the driver's attention?

    Marge Askinforit Barry Pain 1896

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