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juggins slang.|ˈdʒʌgɪnz|
[Origin uncertain.
As a surname of plebeian origin (app. from Jug; cf. Jenkins, Tomkins, Dickens, etc.), Juggins is known in 1604 (Worcestersh.); it is given to a Lancashire collier in Disraeli's Sybil. But it does not appear whether or how far this is the source of the slang term; some take the latter as a fantastically perverted derivative of mug ‘greenhorn’, found 1861 in Mayhew London Lab. III. 203, and having also a derivative muggins (but this not certainly earlier than juggins).]
A simpleton, one easily ‘taken in’ or imposed upon.
[1845Disraeli Sybil iii. i, ‘Juggins has got his rent to pay, and is afraid of the bums’ said Nixon, ‘and he has got two waistcoats’.] 1882Punch 7 Jan., 3 'Arry. ‘The openin' of a new era. What's that?’ Second 'Arry. ‘Openin' of a new 'earer? Why a telephone of course, you Juggins!’ ― Ibid. 23 Dec. 292. 1884 J. Greenwood in Daily Tel. 25 Aug. ‘A Lucky Shilling.’ Well, here's good luck to him as a soft-hearted juggins, and may we soon come across another! 1889Besant Bell St. Paul's I. 292 The pigeon..exists no longer. In his place is the Juggins. 1894Doyle Round the red Lamp 19 Why, you juggins..there never was an operation at all. 1894Stevenson & L. Osbourne Ebb-tide 211 Well, you are a juggins! |