Reverse Dictionary: JUGGLE

ADJECTIVES
► LEGERDEMAIN pert. to legerdemain or jugglery; juggling; tricky → 1576
► PRESTIGIATORY practising ‘prestigiation’; juggling, conjuring; consisting of tricks, impostures, or illusions; deceptive, delusive → 1588 obs.

NOUNS
► HANKY-PANKY jugglery, legerdemain; trickery, double dealing, underhand dealing; dishonest or corrupt activity; deceit → 1841 sl.
► JUGGLEMENT a piece of juggling; a juggler’s trick → a1708
► LEGERDEMAIN sleight of hand; the performance of tricks which by nimble action deceive the eye; jugglery, conjuring tricks → a1400
► HICCIUS DOCIUS a formula used by a juggler when performing a trick; a feat of dexterity; a clever trick → L17
► HOCUS juggling, imposture → M17 sl.
► HOCUS-POCUS a juggler’s trick; thus any form of imposture, trickery → E18 sl.

NOUNS – PERSON
► BAFFLER a juggler, a trickster; a trifler → 1606 obs.
► DECEPTIONIST one who performs feats of illusion; a juggler → 1883
► FAULKENER a juggler, a tumbler → L17 sl.
► HARLOT 1. an itinerant jester, buffoon, or juggler; one who tells or does something to raise a laugh → a1340 obs.
2. ​a female juggler, dancing-girl, ballet-dancer, or actress → 1483 obs.
► HEY-PASS a juggler → a1593 obs.
► HICCIUS DOCCIUS ► HICCIUS DOCTIUS ► HICKSIUS DOXIUS (obs.) ► HICTIUS DOCTIUS (obs.) ► HIXIUS DOXIUS (obs.) a cant word for a juggler; one that plays fast and loose; a trickster, a shifty fellow → 1676
► HOCUS a juggler, a magician, a charlatan → M17 sl.
► HOCUS-POCUS a juggler → L17 sl.
► JUGGLERESS a female juggler → c1430
► MANUALIST a juggler → 1861
► SALAMANDER a fire-eating juggler → 1859 sl.

VERBS
► BAFFLE to juggle, to shuffle, to quibble → 1656 obs.