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Jongleur


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Jongler

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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.