juggler

Etymology 1

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. Doublet of jongleur.

noun

1. Agent noun of juggle; one who either literally juggles objects, or figuratively juggles tasks.
   Baraka was part trickster and part provocateur, a brilliant juggler of genres, ideas, and identities, whose career spanned nearly six decades. 15 January 2014, Jelani Cobb, “The Path Cleared by Amiri Baraka”, in The New Yorker
   2016, Jule Scherer, “Going out for the first time as a mum,” stuff.co.nz, 15 March, 2016, Since the babies were born I’ve turned into a 24/7 milking machine, a bilingual nursery-rhyme jukebox, a prolific laundress, a bum-wiping wizard, a baby juggler and two-armed synchronised cuddler.
2. A person who practices juggling.
   The waiters, commanded by Jules, moved softly across the thick Oriental rugs, balancing their trays with the dexterity of jugglers, and receiving and executing orders with that air of profound importance of which only really first-class waiters have the secret. 1902, Arnold Bennett, chapter 1, in The Grand Babylon Hôtel
   Only when a juggler misses catching his ball does he appeal to me. 1926, Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam
3. (obsolete) A person who performs tricks using sleight of hand, a conjurer, prestidigitator.
   According to Mr. Gmelin’s account, [the Samojede magicians] are tolerable jugglers. Some have the art of plunging a knife into the body, without making a wound; and apparently wringing off their heads, by fastening a cord round their necks, and suffering two persons to draw it tight, and afterwards setting it on again. But these tricks are seen only among those magicians who require but little art to deceive their countrymen; and, indeed, to speak seriously, such a Siberian juggler, would cut but a very indifferent figure at a European fair. 1789, John Trusler, The Habitable World Described, Volume 4, Part 3, p. 19
4. (dated) A magician or wizard.
   So far we may follow the 'clerk,' but he subsequently shows himself to be a juggler, and not a worker by regular natural science. 1841, Geoffrey Chaucer, Richard H. Horne, The Poems of Geoffrey Chaucer, page 320
   The contents of the Sūtra is a legend of a juggler Bhadra. Bhadra, due to his magical tricks, intended to deceive the Buddha and invited him to a magic feast which was charmed into being on a refuse dump. 1938, Constantin Regamey, The Bhadramayakara Vyakarana, →OCLC, page 115
   This time he accidentally takes a juggler's magic ball and embarks on a successful career as a street entertainer. Every time he throws the red ball into the air, the ball multiplies, and magical scenes appear on them. 1986, School Library Journal, volume 33, page 72
   Brauner transforms the Juggler's magic wand into a lunar-solar scepter to symbolize the reunion of opposites, to set up a confrontation of masculine and feminine principles, and to announce their alchemical fusion. 1998, Bernard Blistène, Centre Georges Pompidou, Lisa Dennison, Rendezvous

Etymology 2

noun

1. Misspelling of jugular.
   The defensive system they were playing hampered them from going for the juggler. 29 January 2016, “Ulster now the only provincial title that means anything — John Gildea”, in Donegal Now
   [They] declare that Kashmir is their juggler vein. 28 August 2016, “Unrest in Kashmir”, in Asian Tribune