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/dʒˈəgələr/ /dʒˈəglər/ Listen

noun

Juggler n.

One who juggles; one who practices or exhibits tricks by sleight of hand; one skilled in legerdemain; a conjurer. (Archaic) Note: This sense is now expressed by magician or conjurer. "As nimble jugglers that deceive the eye." "Jugglers and impostors do daily delude them."

A deceiver; a cheat.

A person who juggles objects, i. e. who maintains several objects in the air by passing them in turn from one hand to another.

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Etymology of 'Juggler'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Juggler" Quotes from Famous Books

... close at his elbow were wrangling over a game at draughts which they were playing by the light of a flare, but both curses and Koran ceased as the procession passed under the arch. In the market-place a Soosi juggler was performing before a throng of laughing people, and a story-teller was shrieking to the twang of his ginbri; but the audience of the juggler broke up as the procession appeared, and the ginbri ...

— The Scapegoat • Hall Caine

... show at liberty, but guarded with all care and watch that were possible, and willed to follow the King to London. But from his first appearance upon the stage in his new person of a sycophant or juggler, instead of his former person of a prince, all men may think how he was exposed to the derision not only of the courtiers, but also of the common people, who flocked about him as he went along, that one might know afar off where the ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 8 - The Later Renaissance: From Gutenberg To The Reformation • Editor-in-Chief: Rossiter Johnson

... in Central Park showed signs of serious decay, he saved the hieroglyphics by ironing it with melted parafine. He makes us think of the juggler who can keep a dozen balls in the air as if it were an ...

— Memories and Anecdotes • Kate Sanborn

... to say that if a danseuse could not throw a glance to the conductor of the band without the juggler being jealous, the Variety Profession was coming to a pretty pass. She also remarked that for a girl to entrust her life's happiness to a jealous man would be an act of lunacy. And then "Little Flouflou, ...

— A Chair on The Boulevard • Leonard Merrick

... procession when a consignment of these world-revolutionaries drove off in state from Berne about the time of the Armistice. I told you, last week, that we had a Legation of them, very kindly lent by the Moscow management, and I also told you that our Italian juggler had let us into the secret of their midnight lucubrations, of which we had duly informed the officials interested in such matters. We had front places when the motor lorry called for them and the military escort arrived to assist all the passengers ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, October 6, 1920 • Various

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