juggle

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
juggle/ˈʤʌɡl/

▶verb

• 1 continuously toss into the air and catch a number of objects so as to keep at least one in the air at any time.

• 2 cope with by adroitly balancing (several activities).

• 3 misrepresent (facts).

▶noun an act of juggling.

– derivatives
juggler noun,
jugglery noun.

– origin ME: back-form. from juggler, or from OFr. jogler, from L. joculari ‘to jest’, from joculus, dimin. of jocus ‘jest’.