juggler
nounEtymology
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.
Definitions
Agent noun of juggle
Agent noun of juggle; one who either literally juggles objects, or figuratively juggles tasks.
- Baraka was part trickster and part provocateur, a brilliant juggler of genres, ideas, and identities, whose career spanned nearly six decades.
A person who practices juggling (trick of throwing and catching balls or similar).
- Only when a juggler misses catching his ball does he appeal to me.
A person who performs tricks using sleight of hand, a conjurer, prestidigitator.
- 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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A magician or wizard.
- So far we may follow the 'clerk,' but he subsequently shows himself to be a juggler, and not a worker by regular natural science.
- The contents of the Sūtra is a legend of a juggler Bhadra. Bhadra, due to his magical tricks, intended to deceive the Buddha and invited him to a magic feast which was charmed into being on a refuse dump.
- This time he accidentally takes a juggler's magic ball and embarks on a successful career as a street entertainer. Every time he throws the red ball into the air, the ball multiplies, and magical scenes appear on them.
Misspelling of jugular.
- The defensive system they were playing hampered them from going for the juggler.
- [They] declare that Kashmir is their juggler vein.
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for juggler. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA