Synonyms for juggler
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : juhg-ler |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈdʒʌg lər |
Définition of juggler
Origin :- c.1100, iugulere "jester, buffoon," also "wizard, sorcerer," from Old English geogelere "magician, conjurer," also from Anglo-French jogelour, Old French jogleor (accusative), from Latin ioculatorem (nominative ioculator) "joker," from ioculari "to joke, to jest" (see jocular). Connecting notion between "magician" and "juggler" is dexterity.
- As in conjuror : noun magician
- The audience now had the appearance of one watching a juggler perform a trick.
- Extract from : « The Underdog » by F. Hopkinson Smith
- Napier thought there was some collusion between the juggler and his retainer.
- Extract from : « Self-Help » by Samuel Smiles
- The juggler looked attentively at the hand, and said he would not make the trial.
- Extract from : « Self-Help » by Samuel Smiles
- As a mountebank, a juggler, a quack doctor—I spurned the very idea.
- Extract from : « Japhet in Search of a Father » by Frederick Marryat
- He minds you somewhat of a juggler, balancing a long staff on his chin.
- Extract from : « Moby Dick; or The Whale » by Herman Melville
- The barefaced audacity of the act (like that of a juggler) caused it to pass unobserved.
- Extract from : « Twice Bought » by R.M. Ballantyne
- The first person they stopped to watch was a Juggler doing tricks.
- Extract from : « The Irish Twins » by Lucy Fitch Perkins
- A juggler who makes as much of this worst of all possible worlds as if it were the best.
- Extract from : « Uarda, Complete » by Georg Ebers
- She suffered with the juggler as he fought a battle with his soul.
- Extract from : « The Magic Curtain » by Roy J. Snell
- As the juggler she offered songs of battle, songs of conquest, drama.
- Extract from : « The Magic Curtain » by Roy J. Snell
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