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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Examples
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"And the little juggins ran away, on the train last night?"
THE NUMBERS 2010
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He felt an awful fool, a — what was it? — a juggins, ah! — a Juggernaut.
The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll Herbert George 2006
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"And the little juggins ran away, on the train last night?"
Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995
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"And the little juggins ran away, on the train last night?"
Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995
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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
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"Don't be a juggins, Jenny," he remarked, in a dispassionate way that made her feel helpless.
Nocturne Frank Swinnerton 1933
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O Rupert, my silly little juggins, you're as dense as a vegetable marrow.
Tell England A Study in a Generation Ernest Raymond 1931
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'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
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Dennis yelled: "Bob, you juggins, do you want to do the lot of us in?"
With Haig on the Somme D. H. Parry 1915
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'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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