juggler
/ˈd͡ʒʌɡl̩ə(ɹ)/
juggler noun: a person who practices juggling (trick of throwing and catching balls or similar). Also the agent noun of juggle.
Noun
juggler (plural jugglers)
- A person who practices juggling (trick of throwing and catching balls or similar).
- 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...1821, William Hazlitt, “Essay IX”, in Table-Talk; or, Original Essays, volume I, London: John Warren, […], →OCLC, page 181
- The waiters, commanded by Jules, moved softly across the thick Oriental rugs, balancing their trays with the dexterity of jugglers, and receiving and executing orders with that air of profound importance of which only really first-class waiters have the secret.1902, Arnold Bennett, chapter 1, in The Grand Babylon Hôtel
- 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: […]c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
- […] Along with them / They brought one Pinch, a hungry lean-faced villain, / A mere anatomy, a mountebank, / A threadbare juggler and a fortune-teller, / A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch, / A dead-looking man: this pernicious slave, / Forsooth, took on him as a conjurer […]c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
- 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.1841, Geoffrey Chaucer, Richard H. Horne, The Poems of Geoffrey Chaucer, page 320
- 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.1938, Constantin Regamey, The Bhadramayakara Vyakarana, →OCLC, page 115
Also used as
juggler is also the agent noun of juggle.
juggler is also the misspelling of jugular.
juggler meaning in Sanskrit and Persian
juggler in Sanskrit
- person who practices sleight-of-hand tricks
- मायिन् māyin
juggler in Persian
- person who practices juggling
- ژانگلر žângler
Examples of juggler in a sentence
- Only when a juggler misses catching his ball does he appeal to me.1926, Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam:
- Being like the tricks of Jugglers, vvhereby men doubt not but they are cheated, though oftentimes they cannot declare by vvhat ſlights they are impoſed on.1661, Robert Boyle, “Physiological Considerations Touching the Experiments Wont to be Employed to Evince either the IV Peripatetick...
- He hath as fine a Hand at picking a Pocket as a VVWoman, and is as nimble-finger’d as a Juggler.1728, [John] Gay, The Beggar’s Opera. […], London: […] John Watts, […], →OCLC, Act I, scene vi, page 7:
- Gmelin’s account, [the Samojede magicians] are tolerable jugglers.1789, John Trusler, The Habitable World Described, Volume 4, Part 3, p. 19:
Forms of juggler
| plural | jugglers |
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Origin of juggler
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.
Words formed from juggler
Phrases with juggler
Questions about juggler
- What does juggler mean?
- Juggler means a person who practices juggling (trick of throwing and catching balls or similar).
- What is juggler in Sanskrit?
- Juggler in Sanskrit is मायिन् (māyin). See Juggler meaning in Sanskrit.
- How do you use juggler in a sentence?
- Only when a juggler misses catching his ball does he appeal to me.
- What part of speech is juggler?
- Juggler is a noun.
- How do you pronounce juggler?
- Juggler is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒʌɡl̩ə(ɹ)/.
- What is the plural of juggler?
- The plural of juggler is jugglers.
Words near juggler in the dictionary
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