Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that juggles objects or performs other tricks of manual dexterity.
- noun One that uses tricks, deception, or fraud.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In coal-mining, one of several timbers resting against one another at the top, so as to leave a triangular passageway.
- noun One who juggles or practises sleight of hand; one who performs tricks of great dexterity.
- noun A cheat; a deceiver; a trickish fellow.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Archaic One who juggles; one who practices or exhibits tricks by sleight of hand; one skilled in legerdemain; a conjurer.
- noun A deceiver; a cheat.
- noun A person who juggles objects, i. e. who maintains several objects in the air by passing them in turn from one hand to another.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Agent noun ofjuggle ; one who either literally juggles objects, or figuratively juggles tasks. - noun A person who practices
juggling . - noun A
conjuror . - noun dated A
magician orwizard .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a performer who juggles objects and performs tricks of manual dexterity
Etymologies
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Examples
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But that iron puddler could not savvy four-syllable words any more than the word juggler could puddle a heat of iron.
The Iron Puddler Davis, James J 1922
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BLITZER: Let me read to you, Mr. Ambassador, from an article in today's New York Times entitled the juggler -- that's a reference to you, as the headline calls it.
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When Hop Sing returned my handkerchief to me with a bow, I asked if the juggler was the father of the baby.
Tales of the Argonauts Bret Harte 1869
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Jugglery and conjuring, of a noisy, mysterious, and, we must add, rather silly nature, is "medicine," and the juggler is a "medicine-man."
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Pop quiz, jargon juggler: who's got two fists full of round bombs with fuses of scorn for bilingual bloggers testing my lexical patience?
Ask And Ye Shall Receive Shinerpunch 2010
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The tightness of the show was spoilt this evening somewhat by a couple of idiots who decided to pick up on the word 'juggler' and shout it out just as Amstell was coming to a big pay-off line.
Edinburgh Fringe 2007: Simon Amstell - No Self, Pleasance Courtyard, 22.30 annawaits 2007
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The tightness of the show was spoilt this evening somewhat by a couple of idiots who decided to pick up on the word 'juggler' and shout it out just as Amstell was coming to a big pay-off line.
Archive 2007-08-01 annawaits 2007
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"No -- probably also a marabout, a kind of juggler or sorcerer."
The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I Jules Lermina 1877
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In his Natural History, treating of the force of the imagination, and the help it receives 'by one man working by another,' he cites an instance he had witnessed of a kind of juggler, who could tell a person what card he thought of.
A Strange Story — Volume 07 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Natural History, treating of the force of the imagination, and the help it receives 'by one man working by another,' he cites an instance he had witnessed of a kind of juggler, who could tell a person what card he thought of.
A Strange Story — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
sonofgroucho commented on the word juggler
Here's one.
November 6, 2007
kewpid commented on the word juggler
He seems to only have one juggly-thing.
November 7, 2007
reesetee commented on the word juggler
For a second, I thought he was juggling the palm tree.
November 7, 2007