juggler
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lər noun
1.
a person who performs juggling feats, as with balls or knives.
2.
a person who deceives by trickery; trickster.
Origin:
before 1100; Middle English jogelour, jogeler, jugelour < Anglo-French jogelour, jugelur, Old French jogleor, jougleor (see jongleur) ≪ Latin joculātor joker, equivalent to joculā(rī) (see juggle) + -tor -tor; replacing Old English gēogelere magician, cognate with German Gaukler, both directly < Latin, as above
before 1100; Middle English jogelour, jogeler, jugelour < Anglo-French jogelour, jugelur, Old French jogleor, jougleor (see jongleur) ≪ Latin joculātor joker, equivalent to joculā(rī) (see juggle) + -tor -tor; replacing Old English gēogelere magician, cognate with German Gaukler, both directly < Latin, as above
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| —n | |
| 1. | a person who juggles, esp a professional entertainer |
| 2. | a person who fraudulently manipulates facts or figures |
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Word Origin & History
juggler
c.1100, iugulere "jester, buffoon," also "wizard, sorcerer," from O.E. geogelere "magician, conjurer," also from Anglo-Fr. jogelour, from O.Fr. jogleor (acc.), from L. joculatorem (nom. joculator) "joker," from joculari "to joke." Connecting notion between "magician" and "juggler" is dexterity.
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