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Juggler
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- 1 Agent noun of juggle; one who either literally juggles objects, or figuratively juggles tasks. agent, form-of
"Baraka was part trickster and part provocateur, a brilliant juggler of genres, ideas, and identities, whose career spanned nearly six decades."
- 2 Misspelling of jugular. alt-of, misspelling
"The defensive system they were playing hampered them from going for the juggler."
- 3 a performer who juggles objects and performs tricks of manual dexterity wordnet
- 4 A person who practices juggling.
"Coming forward and seating himself on the ground in his white dress and tightened turban, the chief of the Indian Jugglers begins with tossing up two brass balls, which is what any of us could do, and concludes with keeping up four at the same time, which is what none of us could do to save our lives, nor if we were to take our whole lives to do it in."
- 5 A person who performs tricks using sleight of hand, a conjurer, prestidigitator. obsolete
"They ſay this tovvne is full of coſenage: / As nimble Iuglers that deceiue the eie: / Darke vvorking Sorcerers that change the minde: / Soule-killing VVitches, that deforme the bodie: […]"
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- 6 A magician or wizard. dated
"So far we may follow the 'clerk,' but he subsequently shows himself to be a juggler, and not a worker by regular natural science."
Etymology
From Middle English jogeler, jogelour, iogular, partly continuing Old English ġeogolere (“juggler; magician; wizard”) and partly from Anglo-Norman jogelour, jugelur, Old French jongleur (“juggler”), equivalent to juggle + -er. Doublet of jongleur.
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