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juggler|ˈdʒʌglə(r)|
Forms: α. 1 iugelere, ᵹeogelere, 2 iugulere, 3–4 iugelour, (4 -elur, -ellur), 3–6 iogeler, 4–5 ioguler, -or, -ur, -our, -owre, iogoler, -our(e, -ur, iuguler, -or, iugoler, iugillure, -our, 4–6 iogelour, (5 -owre), 6–7 iuggeler. β. 3–4 iuglur, 4 ioglere, 5 ioglour(e, 5–6 iuglour, 6 iogler, iougler, iuglar, 6–7 iugler, iuggler, 7 juglar, (jugleur), 7–9 jugler, 7– juggler.
[ad. OF. nom. jog-, jug-, jouglere, acc. jogleor, jog-, jougelour, later jougleur = It. giocolatore:—L. joculātor, -ātōrem, agent-n. from joculārī to jest. Some of the ME. forms may represent the OF. synonym jogeler, jougler = Sp. juglar, It. giocogliere:—L. juculāris jocular, droll, in med.L. as n. = ‘mimus, scurra’; but already in the late OE. iugelere we see the suffix levelled under the native -ere, later -er1. The trisyllabic iuguler, ioguler, etc. were app. influenced by the Latin form. See also jongleur.]
†1. One who entertains or amuses people by stories, songs, buffoonery, tricks, etc.; a jester, buffoon. (Often used with implied contempt or reprobation.) Obs.
αc1175Lamb. Hom. 29 Þa liȝeres and þa wohdemeres and þa iuguleres, and þa oðer sottes. c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 271/19 Is Iugelour a day bi-fore him pleide faste, And nemde in his ryme and in is song þene deuel atþe laste. a1300K. Horn 1494 (Ritson) Men seide hit were harperis, Jogelers, ant fythelers. c1420Chron. Vilod. 138 In a Iogulers lykenesse y wys He went to aspye what dede his fone. 1483Caxton Cato B v, Them that can kepe no thynge secretelyas iogelers, mynstrellys, foles..and yonge chyldren. 1591Spenser M. Hubbard 86, I meane me to disguize In some straunge habit..like a Gipsen, or a Iuggeler.
βa1225Ancr. R. 210 Summe iuglurs beoð þet ne kunnen seruen of non oðer gleo, buten makien cheres, & wrenchen mis hore muð, & schulen mid hore eien. a1300Cursor M. 28382 Oure fele..sith haf i..to gleumen cald and to ioglere, in tent þai suld me luueworde bere. 1557Paynell Barclay's Jugurth I. 91, I haue no iougler nor dyzar with me to moue sportes and dissolute laughynge.
2. One who works marvels by the aid of magic or witchcraft, a magician, wizard, sorcerer (obs.); one who plays tricks by sleight of hand; a performer of legerdemain; a conjurer.
αa1100Aldhelm Glosses 4020 (Napier 106/2) Aruspicum, iugelera. Ibid. 4476 Marsi, dryas, iugeleras [Brussels MS. ᵹeogelere]. a1300Cursor M. 5898 Þan cald þe king his enchaunturs, Þ e craftes of his iogulurs, Dun þai kest a wand ilkan, And þai wex dragons son onan. Ibid. 20891 Symon magus, þat iugelur [v.rr. iuglur, iugillure, Iogelour]..ledd þe folk wit grett errur. c1384Chaucer H. Fame iii. 169 Ther saugh I pley Iugelours Magiciens and tregetours. 1509Gosp. Nicodemus (W. de W. 1518) 12 Iames and Zambres the whiche were iogelers and wytches. 1555Eden Decades 46 He conueygheth the piece of fleshe owte of his owne mouth like a iuggeler. 1601–2W. Fulbecke 1st Pt. Parall. 97 This is many waies done, and iuggelers and professors of feates can performe it.
βa1300[see α above]. a1400–50Alexander 410 Þe Iuse for his gemetry þat Iogloure takis. c1450Holland Howlat 770 In com iapand the Ia as a iuglour. 1529More Dyaloge ii. Wks. 200/2 The serpent of Moises deuoured all the serpentes..of the Egipcyan ioglers. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VII 5 No lesse deceytfull then ligier de meyne in the hand of a iuggler. 1662Pepys Diary 15 Aug., After dinner comes in a jugleur, which showed us very pretty tricks. 1761Churchill Apol. 122 It flies,—hey!—presto!—like a jugler's ball. 1808A. Parsons Trav. xiv. 308 Buffoons and juglers, who come in groupes with music into the channel, and play their tricks. 1875E. White Life in Christ iii. xxi. (1878) 310 Phenomena travestied by the jugglers of the Egyptian Hall.
3. transf. and fig. One who deceives by trickery; a trickster; one who plays fast and loose (with).
a1340Hampole Psalter xxx. 16 Þai ere all faitors & ypocrites & iogulors þat dessayues man. c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 99 Þei [Prelatis] bicomen þe deuelis iogelours to blynde mennus gostly eiȝ en. a1400–50Alexander 4526 Iupitir þat Ioglour sum Iape bos haue. 1567J. Maplet Gr. Forest 7 This [gem] is a maruellous Iugler, for it wil cause things obiect to be presented to our eies as it listeth. 1590Shakes. Mids. N. iii. ii. 282 O me, you iugler, you canker blossome, You theefe of loue. 1651Sir E. Nicholas in N. Papers (Camden) 226 The two great Jugglers..in Scotland, viz. Hamilton and Argyle. 1769Burke Late St. Nat. Wks. 1842 I. 85 All the little tricks of finance which the expertest juggler of the treasury can practise. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) IV. 376 The Sophist..is proved to be a dissembler and juggler with words.
4. Comb., as juggler-like adj. or adv.
1639Habington Castara ii. (Arb.) 97 Honour doth appeare To statesmen like a vision in the night, And jugler-like workes oth' deluded sight.
Add:[2.] b. spec. A person who practises juggling (sense *c).
This sense separated gradually from sense 2 a as the specific skill gained recognition as a form of entertainment distinct from conjuring, etc.
a1807W. Wordsworth Poems in Two Vols. I. 119 A Juggler's Balls old Time about him toss'd. 1816Handbill 3 Sept., The Chinese Jugglers... Three large knives are thrown up and caught together with..dexterity. 1821W. Hazlitt Table Talk IX. 181 The chief of the Indian Jugglers begins with tossing up two brass balls. c1894in Entertainment Soc. 8 Juggler, suitable for garden party or school treats, &c. 1931H. S. Walpole Judith Paris ii. vii. 383 The sky tossed cloud after cloud as though there were some giant juggler over the hill. 1937F. Foster Clowning Through 100 One is apt to think of a juggler as a person who throws up and catches a number of balls. 1963A. Farrer in F. F. Bruce Promise & Fulfilment 104 Keeping (like jugglers) half a dozen balls in the air at once. 1987Telford Jrnl. 4 June 11/3 The..circus acts..will include jugglers. |