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mumbo jumbo
[ muhm-boh juhm-boh ]
noun
- meaningless incantation or ritual.
- senseless or pretentious language, usually designed to obscure an issue, confuse a listener, or the like.
- an object of superstitious awe or reverence.
- (initial capital letters) the guardian of western Sudan villages symbolized by a masked man who combats evil and punishes women for breaches of tribal laws.
mumbo jumbo
/ ˈmʌmbəʊ /
noun
- foolish religious reverence, ritual, or incantation
- meaningless or unnecessarily complicated language
- an object of superstitious awe or reverence
Word History and Origins
Origin of mumbo jumbo1
Word History and Origins
Origin of mumbo jumbo1
Example Sentences
Please go to BobQ2014.com for details and all that attorney mumbo-jumbo.
It's really twisted and sick mumbo-jumbo to try to pass this off as part of God's plan.
Plus, as a politician he knows how fishy this heart mumbo jumbo looks.
Thereupon he asked me, even as you did some time ago, what I meant by Mumbo Jumbo?
Pauline actually believed in her religion, believed in it to the extent of dishonoring their love to appease the mumbo-jumbo.
In such cases, the interposition of Mumbo Jumbo is called in and is always decisive.
Thereupon he asked me, even as you did some time ago, what I meant by Mumbo Jumbo.
Suspended on a tree near the entrance of the town we saw the strange dress of bark called Mumbo Jumbo.
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