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Definition: Juggler |
JugglerNoun1. A performer who juggles objects and performs tricks of manual dexterity. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "juggler" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1379. (references) |
Etymology: Juggler \Jug"gler\, noun. [from Old English expression jogelour, juglur, Old French jogleor, jugleor, jongleor, French jongleur, from the Latin expression joculator jester, joker, from joculus little jest or joke, diminutive of jocus jest, joke. See Joke, and compare to Jongleur, Joculator.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Juggler means a player. (Latin, joculator.) These jugglers accompanied the minstrels and troubadours, to assist them, and added to their musical talents sleight-of-hand, antics, and feats of prowess, to amuse the company assembled. In time the music was dropped as the least attractive, and tricks became the staple of these wandering performers. (Latin, joculator, jocus, a joke or trick.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Occupations | Juggles and balances objects, such as balls, knives, plates, tenpins, and hats, to entertain audience. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Juggling is the art of repeatedly throwing several objects in the air and catching them, so that at least one object remains in the air at all times. Common juggling props include balls, beanbags, rings, clubs, knives, torches and everything you can imagine to throw in the air.
More generally, the definition of juggling may be stretched to include all forms of artful object manipulation. Such variations include prop spinning and balancing, Chinese yoyo, devil stick, bounce juggling, cigar box manipulation, and contact juggling (where one or more balls are skillfully rolled across the hands and body).
The earliest known record of juggling is Egyptian, from the 15th Beni Hassan tomb of an unknown prince, dating from the middle kingdom period of about 1994-1781 B.C.
Modern independently verifiable records for number of objects juggled (defined as at least two catches per object - a "qualifying run") are 10 balls, 10 rings, and 7 clubs. The less stringent requirement (at least one catch per object - a "flash") has been reached with 12 balls (beanbags), 13 rings, and 9 sticks (or 8 traditional clubs). It has been said that the limits of human ability lie around the 14-ball mark, though evidence to back this up is understandably scarce.
Juggling is one of the circus arts.
External links
- The Internet Juggling Database (There is an extensive JuggleWiki here.)
- Juggling Information Service
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Juggling."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deceiver | Conjuror, juggler, trickster, prestidigitator, jockey; crimp, decoy, decoy duck; rogue, knave, cheat; swindler; (thief); jobber. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Juggler |
| English words defined with "juggler": Fire eater ♦ Hiccius doctius, Hocuspocus ♦ Jongler, Juggleress, jugglery ♦ Prestigiator ♦ Tregetour. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "juggler": Brandon ♦ Coral Master, Cup Tosser. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "juggler": Joculator. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | The pattern juggler lifts his hand; (THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING; performing artist: King Crimson) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Reluctant Juggler (1972) Foot Juggler (1902) The Juggler Drawee (1902) Juggler (1898) Columbo: The Juggler (1989) | |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The juggler must be getting nervous. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The juggler. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The original and only, Ray Burton the greatest & most novel mid-air juggler & balancer & the only swinging wire rifle shot in the world : three great acts in one. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Eldora, the premier equilibrist and juggler of the world. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Juggler" by Christoph Burgdorfer Commentary: "Juggler in cologne." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Denis Diderot | When God, from whom I have my reason, demands of me to sacrifice it, he becomes a mere juggler that snatches from me what he pretended to give. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He was a juggler and a traveling dentist, and was offering to the public complete sets of teeth, opiates, powders, and elixirs |
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| "Juggler" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.00% of the time. "Juggler" is used about 25 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Noun (proper) | 4% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 25 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "juggler": juggler-comedienne. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "juggler"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | mashtrim (bilk, blind, bluff, bunco, bunko, caper, cheat, chicanery, chouse, circumvention, con, cozenage, crammer, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, defalcation, delusion, dodge, double dealing, duplicity, fake, false pretences, falsity, flimflam, fob, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gag, gammon, gimmick, guile, gyp, humbug, imposition, imposture, jiggery pokery, jugglery, juggling, leasing, lie, manipulation, overreach, quackery, racket, racketeering, rascaldom, rascality, rig, roguery, sham, swindle, take in, trick), manipulim (manipulation), lojë zhongleri (juggling). (various references) | |
Arabic | مشعوذ (charlatan, conjuror, quack, swindler, voodoo), المحتال (artist, bluffer, cheat, crook, dodger, impostor, kite, knave, queue jumper, rook, shark, sharper, skin, swindler), المتلاعب, دجال (empiric, fake, humbug, sham), بهلواني. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | фокусник (conjurer, illusionist, magician, mugger, prestidigitator, thaumaturge, trickster, wizard), жонгльор (jongleur), измамник (ambidextrous, bilk, bilker, cheat, counterfeit, deceiver, double-dealer, fake, fiddler, fraud, gyp, impostor, intake, ringer, rook, sharp, sharpy, slicker, swindler). (various references) | |
Czech | podvodník (cheat, con man, confidence trickster, conman, crook, deceiver, dodger, fake, fiddler, fraud, impostor, phoney, phony, racketeer, rascal, runner, shark, sharper, swindler, trickster), kejklíř, eskamotér, žonglér. (various references) | |
Dutch | jongleur. (various references) | |
Esperanto | ĵonglisto. (various references) | |
Farsi | تردست (Adroit, Nimble, Yare), شعبده باز. (various references) | |
French | jongleur. (various references) | |
German | Jongleur, Gaukler (story teller, traveling entertainer). (various references) | |
Greek | ταχυδακτυλουργόσ (conjurer, legerdemainist, magician, prestidigitator). (various references) | |
Hebrew | להטוטן. (various references) | |
Hungarian | zsonglõr (tumbler), zsonglőr, csaló (abuser, bilk, blackleg, bobber, cheat, colubrine, crook, deceitful, double-dealer, fake, faker, fiddler, fraud, fraudulent, gouge, guileful, gyp, humbug, hustler, impostor, jockey, leg, masquerader, picaroon, piker, rogue, roguish, rook, rooky, shark, sharper, skinner, snide, swindler, trickster), bûvész (conjurer, conjuror, illusionist, magician, palmer, prestidigitator, sorcerer). (various references) | |
Italian | prestigiatore (conjurer), impostore (faker, humbug, impostor, phoney, sham), giocoliere. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 手品師 (magician), 奇術師 (conjurer, magician), ジャガ芋 (jacket, Jackson, jacuzzi, jazz dance, potato). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きじゅつし (conjurer, descriptor, magician), ジャグラー , てじなし (magician). (various references) | |
Manx | laue-chluickeyder, laue-chleasee, doalgaanagh. (various references) | |
Norwegian | sjonglør. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ugglerjay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | prestidigitador (conjurer, conjuror, counterfeit, illusionist, magician, palmer, prestidigitator). (various references) | |
Romanian | jongler (cheat, deceiver, trickster), pungaş (biter, cheat, Cutpurse, duffer, fraud, gun, jockey, knave, lurcher, manipulator, mountebank, pickpocket, pilferer, prig, rascal, rogue, rook, rough, scab, shark, snap, swindler, thief), panglicar (fibster), escroc (bilk, biter, blackguard, blackleg, carpet bagger, charlatan, cheat, crook, desperado, double-dealer, duffer, faker, fraud, gambler, gamester, gouge, gyp, impostor, jockey, knave, mountebank, rogue, rook, scab, shark, sharp, sharper, snap, swindler), şarlatan (charlatan, coon, desperado, history, impostor, mountebank, quack). (various references) | |
Russian | фокусник (conjurer, conjuror, magician, prestidigitatior, prestidigitator, wiz), жонглер. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | žongler. (various references) | |
Spanish | malabarista. (various references) | |
Swedish | jonglör (prestidigitator). (various references) | |
Turkish | hokkabaz (conjurer, conjuror, illusionist, prestidigitator), hilebaz (blackleg, cardsharp, cardsharper, cheat, cheater, deceitful, foul, fraud, fraudulent, gyp, rook, serpentine, sharper, shuffling, trickster). (various references) | |
Turkmen | Јonglяor (r). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | фігляр (antic, buffoon, mummer), жонглер (prestidigitator). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nghệ sĩ xiên tung hứng, nghệ sĩ múa rối kẻ lừa bịp, kẻ lừa gạt (deceiver, defrauder, diddler, tricker, trickster). (various references) | |
Welsh | siwglwr. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "juggler": juggleries, jugglers, jugglery. (additional references) | |
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"Juggler" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: jigglier, jougler, juggelry, jugglar, jugglo, jugla, juglar, jugle, juglet, kuggle. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "juggler" (pronounced ju"guler) |
| 4 | -g u l er | dangler, tingler, wrangler. |
| 3 | -u l er | embezzler, enabler, abler, alveolar, angular, annular, avuncular, bachelor, binocular, Buckler, Candler, cardiovascular, cellular, chancellor, circular, consular, councilor, counsellor, counselor, curricular, dissimilar, equiangular, extracurricular, fiddler, gastrovascular, Girdler, glandular, globular, gobbler, granular, hackler, humbler, hurdler, hustler, Idler, insular, intercellular, intermolecular, irregular, jeweler, jocular, jugular, kindler, kittler, Littler, modular, molecular, muscular, needler, nestler, nodular, particular, peninsular, perpendicular, popular, rattler, rectangular, regular, reveler, saddler, secular, semicircular, settler, shuffler, Sidler, similar, simpler, singular, spectacular, Spindler, Stabler, stapler, stickler, subtler, swindler, testicular, Tinkler, titular, traveler, traveller, triangular, tubular, unicellular, unpopular, unspectacular, vascular, vehicular, vernacular, wrestler. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-g-j-l-r-u" | |
-1 letter: gurgle, juggle, lugger. | |
-2 letters: gluer, gruel, gurge, jurel, luger. | |
-3 letters: gleg, glue, glug, grue, luge, lure, rule, urge. | |
-4 letters: egg, erg, gel, gul, jeu, jug, leg, leu, lug, reg, rue, rug. | |
-5 letters: el, er, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-g-j-l-r-u" | |
+1 letter: jugglers, jugglery, rejuggle. | |
+2 letters: rejuggled, rejuggles. | |
+3 letters: juggleries, rejuggling. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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