Bejuggling miscellaneous collections, dog Latin in its bad form, thanks to the world wide words site. In around 1100 this word, juggle, had roots with our English word jester and jocular, and it meant for general amusement. Jugglers became to exhibit more of a trickster or conjuror by staging deceptions or by legerdemain. After the 19th century negative connotation toward them dissolved into the definition we give today: showing an act of manual dexterity.