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| 3 results for mumbo jumbo | |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Mumbo Jumbo \Mum"bo Jum`bo\ An object of superstitious homage and fear. --Carlyle. The miserable Mumbo Jumbo they paraded. --Dickens. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Mumbo Jumbo \Mum"bo Jum"bo\, n. [Perh. fr. the native name of an African god.] Among the Mandingos of the western Sudan, a bugbear by means of which the women are terrified and disciplined by societies of the men, one of whom assumes a masquerade for the purpose; hence, loosely, any Negro idol, fetish, or bugaboo. | |
