Why this word is great
JOCULATOR — [Noun] A professional itinerant entertainer in medieval Europe, whose repertoire encompassed jesting, juggling, music, and acrobatics. From the Latin ioculator ("jester, joker"), from ioculari ("to jest, joke"), a derivative of iocus ("joke, jest"). Unlike a jester, which denotes the licensed, court-bound fool, or a minstrel, which elevates the dignified singer of romances, the joculator was the roving jack-of-all-trades, his art a versatile basket of earthy distraction. He is the flicker of juggling knives in a smoky tavern, the pratfall taken in the mud of a crossroads market, and the bawdy punchline that cuts through the crowd's din—a figure of pure kinetic necessity, stitching fleeting, raucous order into the frayed edges of a grim world.