A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1591-1592
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Juggill, v. [ME. iugille, iogelen. iogly(n (1377), e.m.E. iuggle, iugle, OF. jogler, jugler.] tr. To deceive by, or as by, legerdemain. —1591-2 Rob Stene 16.
‘Sic trumpry and sic gyle … In him nawayis I can espy.’ ‘Thairfoir he juggillis ȝow’ quod I, ‘For juggillaris, that all men begylis, [etc.]’