Other forms: jugglers
A juggler is somebody who keeps several objects in the air at once. A street juggler, a skilled juggler, the juggler dropped one.
The hard step is three, because the pattern has to cross and the hands are never both free. In the middle ages a juggler meant any kind of entertainer, and the word is a relative of joke, from the Latin for jesting.
1nounjugglerSomebody who keeps several objects in the air at once.
“The juggler kept five flaming torches in the air while the crowd cheered.”
juggler is a performer.
Old French jogleor comes from Latin ioculator, a jester, from iocus, a joke.
Old French
jongleur — juggler
Anglo-Norman
jogelour
Old English
ġeogolere — juggler; magician; wizard
Middle English
jogeler
English, today
juggler
From Middle English jogeler, jogelour, iogular, partly continuing Old English ġeogolere (“juggler; magician; wizard”) and partly from Anglo-Norman jogelour, jugelur, Old French jongleur (“juggler”), equivalent to juggle + er. a doublet of jongleur.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA