Obs. Also 5 ioculer. [a. OF. joculer, altered form (after L.) of jougler, jougleur: see JUGGLER.] A professional jester or minstrel.
1432–50. trans. Higden (Rolls), II. 171. Thei be as ioculers [histriones] in behauor.
1498. Privy Purse Exp. Hen. VII., Aug. My Lord of Oxford’s Iocular.
a. 1552. Leland, Collect., I. 235. A sothsayer, and iocular, and minstrelle.
1806. Southey, in Ann. Rev., IV. 536. The Normans had joculars or minstrels.
