juggler

American  

[juhg-ler] / ˈdʒʌg lər /

noun

1. a person who performs juggling feats, as with balls or knives.

2. a person who deceives by trickery; trickster.

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ˈjuggler British  

/ ˈdʒʌɡlə /

noun

1. a person who juggles, esp a professional entertainer

2. a person who fraudulently manipulates facts or figures

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Etymology

Origin of juggler

before 1100; Middle English jogelour, jogeler, jugelour < Anglo-French jogelour, jugelur, Old French jogleor, jougleor ( jongleur ) ≪ Latin joculātor joker, equivalent to joculā ( rī ) ( juggle ) + -tor -tor; replacing Old English gēogelere magician, cognate with German Gaukler, both directly < Latin, as above

Example Sentences

I remember it was a kind of collage, full of cutout pictures of circus life, with clowns and acrobats and jugglers and horses, and elephants, of course, lots of elephants.

From Literature

Hollywood, however, is hardly squeamish when it comes to synchronized jugglers.

From Los Angeles Times

A juggler too advanced for the circus, language’s great folk hero.

From Los Angeles Times

She’s been in town rehearsing for a few weeks and jokes with some of the show’s jugglers in a kitchenette, where she makes herself a machine pod coffee.

From Los Angeles Times

Barabak: The criticism of this collective field is that it’s terminally boring, as if we’re looking to elect a stand-up comic, a chanteuse or a juggler.

From Los Angeles Times

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