juggler

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: jug=gler

CIDE DICTIONARY

juggler, n. [OE. jogelour, juglur, OF. jogleor, jugleor, jongleor, F. jongleur, fr. L. joculator a jester, joker, fr. joculus a little jest or joke, dim. of jocus jest, joke. See Joke, and cf. Jongleur, Joculator.].

•  One who juggles; one who practices or exhibits tricks by sleight of hand; one skilled in legerdemain; a conjurer.

  "This sense is now expressed by magician or conjurer."  [1913 Webster]

  "As nimble jugglers that deceive the eye."  [1913 Webster]

  "Jugglers and impostors do daily delude them."  [1913 Webster]
•  A deceiver; a cheat.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
•  A person who juggles objects, i. e. who maintains several objects in the air by passing them in turn from one hand to another.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

juggler, n.
1 a a person who juggles. b a conjuror.
2 a trickster or impostor.

Derivative

jugglery n.

Etymology

ME f. OF jouglere -eor f. L joculator -oris (as JUGGLE)

THESAURUS

juggler

acrobat, aerialist, bareback rider, blackleg, cheat, cheater, chiseler, circus artist, clown, conjurer, cozener, crook, defrauder, diddler, equestrian director, equilibrist, escamoteur, flier, flimflam man, flimflammer, gyp artist, gypper, high-wire artist, illusionist, lion tamer, magician, prestidigitator, ringmaster, slack-rope artist, sleight-of-hand performer, snake charmer, swindler, sword swallower, tightrope walker, trapeze artist, tricker, trickster, tumbler, two-timer

ROGET THESAURUS

juggler

Deceiver

N deceiver &c (deceive), dissembler, hypocrite, sophist, Pharisee, Jesuit, Mawworm, Pecksniff, Joseph Surface, Tartufe, Janus, serpent, snake in the grass, cockatrice, Judas, wolf in sheep's clothing, jilt, shuffler, stool pigeon, liar &c (lie), story-teller, perjurer, false witness, menteur a triple etage, Scapin, bunko steerer, carpetbagger, capper, faker, fraud, four flusher, horse coper, ringer, spieler, straw bidder, imposter, pretender, soi-disant, humbug, adventurer, Cagliostro, Fernam Mendez Pinto, ass in lion's skin, actor, quack, charlatan, mountebank, saltimbanco, saltimbanque, empiric, quacksalver, medicaster, Rosicrucian, gypsy, man of straw, conjuror, juggler, trickster, prestidigitator, jockey, crimp, decoy, decoy duck, rogue, knave, cheat, swindler, jobber, saint abroad and a devil at home.