tummler
Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. (noun) One who encourages audience participation.
- n. (noun) Someone who incites others into action.
‘Tummler’ comes from the Yiddish ‘tumlen,’ to make a racket.
Examples
“As in previous shows, she re-creates a Sophie Tucker routine, 'Max From the Income Tax,' which ostensibly is about economic chaos but reveals more about her fascination with Tucker, a Jewish tummler who for 60 years made herself the butt literally of her own jokes about being a zaftig farbissina.”
Will Friedwald, 'Highlights and Dark Nights,' The Wall Street Journal, February 3, 2012
“He nearly died from pneumonia last year and gets around in a wheelchair, difficult for a fizzy, rubbery-faced tummler who once danced a soft-shoe if you pointed a camera at him.”
