joculatrix means A female joculator; a female jester, comedian or entertainer. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.
Why this word is great
JOCULATRIX — [Noun] A female jester, comedian, or entertainer. From the Latin ioculātrīx, the feminine agent noun of ioculātor ("jester, joker"), itself from ioculārī ("to joke, jest"). Unlike a minstrel, whose art is lyrical and melodic, or a scurra, whose wit is barbed and parasitic, the joculatrix is defined by the formal craft of the jest itself. She is the flash of teeth and bells in a torchlit hall, the percussive warmth of a slackened drumhead thumped for comic punctuation, the subversive punchline that hangs in the air a moment too long—a licensed vessel for truths too dangerous to be spoken plainly, whose merriment is a form of precarious labor in a world that seldom pays it fairly.
noun
- A female joculator; a female jester, comedian or entertainer.“Joculator Regis is an officer holding no less than three vills in the return of the Domesday Survey for Gloucestershire; and in the same survey, in Surrey, we have a Joculatrix.”