What's the difference between clown and juggler?

Clown


Definition:

  • (n.) A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an ill-bred person; a boor.
  • (n.) One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl.
  • (n.) The fool or buffoon in a play, circus, etc.
  • (v. i.) To act as a clown; -- with it.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He lost no time climbing on the back of the clown car of the demagogue who, with ghoulishly oedipal glee, he calls “Daddy”.
  • (2) If Kyrgios cares about his career – and sometimes he is so blase about his success, wealth and celebrity he professes to hate tennis – the hip young dude from Canberra who smirks when he should be smiling, who plainly is struggling with fame, needs to understand he is not the only clown in town.
  • (3) Another McChrystal aide reportedly called the White House national security adviser, Jim Jones, a clown who was "stuck in 1985".
  • (4) Doctor Brown In 2011, the American Phil Burgers (AKA bearded silent comic Doctor Brown) performed the funniest comedy show on the fringe : a sexy, stoner clown show that delighted, intrigued and molested its audience.
  • (5) He was also a profoundly unostentatious and reserved man, and although he undertook a great variety of roles, all were informed at heart with the wisdom of the sad clown.
  • (6) St Basil's was like a clown's nose on the face of the evil empire.
  • (7) "We've come to know each other ..." At school, Stanhope says he was too dark to be considered the class clown and, after a spell as a "fraud telemarketer" ("borderline legal stuff, trying to scam people basically"), he decided to give stand-up comedy a go at an open-mic in Las Vegas.
  • (8) The funniest sketch I’ve ever seen Roger Mann and Kevin Eldon’s “Australian clowns” dialogue in Simon Munnery’s live show Cluub Zarathustra, from 25 years ago, in which the duo described the clowning process in painful detail in stoned Australian beach-bum voices.
  • (9) As well as political statements and corny clown jokes, Madonna lamented the fact she was “very single” and had not had sex for some time.
  • (10) When the famous Rivels clowns recently came to a leading Berlin music-hall with their act, which used to include a parody of Charlie Chaplin, the clown who played the mock Charlie abandoned his little moustache and bowler and appeared in another disguise.
  • (11) Handshakes and hugs all round, from that clown Blatter and the German chancellor Angela Merkel.
  • (12) The legal challenges have been issued by a group of residents called the Preston New Road Action Group and Gayzer Frackman, a professional clown from Lytham St Annes who changed his name by deed poll from Geza Tarjanyi.
  • (13) The cupula of the supraorbital neuromast in the lateral line canal of the clown knifefish contains vertical columns.
  • (14) Afterwards, the group is photographed together, and Branson plays the clown, throwing his hands up in the air and whipping out that megawatt smile.
  • (15) This is a story about how trolls took the wheel of the clown car of modern politics.
  • (16) The latter is an intriguing vision , a trojan horse of massive deregulation of some of everything – a clown balloon horse, with rainbow polka dots and a jackass smile.
  • (17) Again, he was taken as a clown and neither arrested nor disciplined.
  • (18) "Dressing for pleasure" and "fun fashion" get a bad rap, especially for women in their middle age, as it is generally assumed that this is a euphemism for women dressing like clowns and not realising that, at their age (huff, huff), they should be wearing beige cashmere.
  • (19) Even as he handed out wads of petrodollars to impoverished developing countries, their leaders mocked him behind his back for being a buffoon and a clown.
  • (20) Further collections of sketches followed – Send Up the Clowns (2011) and House of Fun (2012).

Juggler


Definition:

  • (n.) One who practices or exhibits tricks by sleight of hand; one skilled in legerdemain; a conjurer.
  • (n.) A deceiver; a cheat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Despite the heightened buzz, Charlotte Square Gardens is still an oasis of August calm, especially if you want to escape the Royal Mile's flyerers, jugglers and student Shakespearoes.
  • (2) With his schoolboyish, ginger hair and glasses, he looks just how you might expect a mathematician to look - in fact, he is a juggler, too.
  • (3) Covent Garden has long been home to a diverse collection of living statues and fairground freaks, a levitating shaman competing with unicycling jugglers and motionless men in their silver-painted suits.
  • (4) The roentgen-anatomical study of the cervical portion of the vertebral column (fluorography and roentgenography in 2 projections followed by morphometrical treatment) was performed in 603 representatives of different professions: turners, milling-machine operators, craftsmen, mechanicians, jugglers, engineers and constructors.
  • (5) A key variable in cascade juggling is the proportion of time that a juggler holds onto a juggled object during a hand cycle, that is, the time from catch to throw in relation to the time from catch to catch.
  • (6) But they were far outnumbered by a playful, peaceful, harmless group of protesters, including rappers, sax-players, jugglers, spliff-rollers, students, CND campaigners, passers-by, and men dressed as police officers and wearing blue lipstick.
  • (7) It turns out that, with a language, jugglers have been able to discover tricks that had eluded them for thousands of years.
  • (8) "In English the equivalent word is 'juggler', but in Italy they juggled with words, irony and sarcasm," says Fo, who has attended Grillo's shows for years.
  • (9) There were no musical numbers nor were there any jugglers, although Trump certainly tap danced around addressing any substantive issues of policy.
  • (10) Ask anyone who has had the good fortune to hold season tickets at the Bernabeu stadium these past six years and they will tell you that Roberto Carlos is as fancy a ball juggler as any they have seen.
  • (11) The doctor tries to clear her head before the next act: a little juggler.
  • (12) It makes for quite a weird green room, though: the character comics in one corner with their bags of props; the standups (late, pretending to drink); a juggler from Bhutan looking lost.
  • (13) Thrives on challenges Hunt thrives on challenges – she's "a juggler", says Lorraine Heggessey, the BBC1 controller until 2005.
  • (14) Alain is a talented juggler, a skill he heartily demonstrates before digging around in the boot for a small plywood guitar.