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juggler

juggler

17 3.4
A person who entertains by tossing and catching balls, clubs, or rings
  • noun
  • /ˈdʒʌɡlər/
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  • "Mom, how does that juggler catch all the balls?"

In some places, former barbers gave haircuts and one German, a juggler, gave an impromptu and somewhat surreal performance in the middle of No Man's land.

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Examples

  • The juggler skillfully tossed three flaming clubs into the air.

  • Now, I had long admired how fast and fluidly jugglers make objects fly.

  • - I used to be a juggler.

  • I think if you could get the juggler on with a couple more clubs, that would fill in a bit of time.

  • Fields may not have been the greatest juggler of his era, but he was the most popular and successful.

    Academic text (2002)
  • Yeah, Bruce is a very good ball juggler, especially with five and seven.

    Blog text (28)
  • If you have ever seen a juggler on television or on video or in person, what you notice is that they don't drop the ball.

  • And in fact, we hired professional jugglers to tell us how they did it.

  • And I was surrounded by jugglers, face painters, magicians, musicians.

  • Waterside is full of jugglers and fire-eaters, entertaining thick crowds of Americans and Japanese.

    Fiction book (1994)

Synonyms

acrobat
vsjuggler
22 4.4

A person who does skilled, risky moves like flips and tightrope walking

focuses on skillful tossing and catching of objects rather than broad body acts

How Dangerous

daredevil
26 6.1
stuntman
34 3.6
juggler
17 3.4
magician
245 3.6

Surface Forms

juggler singular
jugglers plural

Morphology

juggler = juggle (transparent) = juggle + er

The agentive suffix '-er' applied to the verb 'juggle' yields 'juggler' in a straightforward, learnable way.

Etymology

Juggler comes from the old verb juggle, which came from a word meaning 'to joke' or 'to trick' and is like the familiar word joke. So a juggler is someone who 'plays' with objects and uses tricks to amaze and entertain people.