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noun
- a person who performs juggling feats, as with balls or knives.
- a person who deceives by trickery; trickster.
noun
- a person who juggles, esp a professional entertainer
- a person who fraudulently manipulates facts or figures
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.