bejuggle

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English

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Etymology

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be- +‎ juggle

Pronunciation

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Verb

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bejuggle (third-person singular simple present bejuggles, present participle bejuggling, simple past and past participle bejuggled)

  1. To confuse; to confound.
    • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
      Yet calm, enticing calm, oh, whale! thou glidest on, to all who for the first time eye thee, no matter how many in that same way thou may'st have bejuggled and destroyed before.