[ noun ] a performer who juggles objects and performs tricks of manual dexterity <noun.person>
Juggler \Jug"gler\, 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}.] 1. One who juggles; one who practices or exhibits tricks by sleight of hand; one skilled in legerdemain; a conjurer. [Archaic]
Note: This sense is now expressed by {magician} or {conjurer}. [1913 Webster +PJC]
As nimble jugglers that deceive the eye. --Shak.
Jugglers and impostors do daily delude them. --Sir T. Browne.
2. A deceiver; a cheat. --Shak.
3. 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]
"You even have to bribe the waiter to serve you champagne." But Mr. Moschen, a wiry 35-year-old with thinning curly hair and a surname made to delight waggish copywriters, is not your traditional juggler.
He has an infinite capacity like an experienced juggler of keeping a very large number of balls in the air."
The sketch of the juggler adapting his act to take account of Stephen Hawking's theory of the expanding universe is sublime. Equally unacceptable to a Perrier judge is another young Radio 4 stalwart, Richard Herring.
Dinner tables graced with petunias in popcorn boxes filled the grassy ringside area that hours earlier had been mobbed with children eager to touch a clown or catch a juggler's misfired ball.
This year there have been the likes of Michael Moschen, a pretentious new-age juggler who aspires to dance but doesn't come close, and the conventional standup comedy and pitiable singing of Harry Shearer.