Examples
“Carry your flag with you at all times, for your tiniest fingernail carries a message, a declaration that there is gris-gris at hand.”
“Then you need some gris-gris pronounced “gree-gree”: some voodoo/hoodoo medicine that aims to ward off a problematic spell.”
“Take a black marking pen and write G-G for gris-gris on your left pinkie.”
“You are about to set sail with some new gris-gris.”
“He studied my neck, then grabbed the gris-gris that hung from it and yanked it off.”
“An unfamiliar world is stretched out before me: crowds of tourists and palm readers at every corner, tap dancers, fiddlers, psychics, and shops where people can buy gris-gris and spells.”
“Augustine gave her back the gris-gris bag, then coiled the pendants and their chains into the palm of her hand.”
““Or maybe it took a moment for the gris-gris mojo to wear off.””
“She tucked the gris-gris bag back into her pocket.”
“Kallie tried to stand, hoping against hope that, despite the still-present thrumming, the gris-gris bag had been the problem.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gris-gris’.
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Hyphenated Repeats
Exactly reduplicated words connected by a hyphen.
aye-aye, cleek-cleek, arc-arc, killy-killy, dum-dum, tom-tom, argon-argon, carbon-carbon, win-win, lose-lose, bye-bye, choo-choo and 113 more...
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difficult words
ordure, tatterwallop, callipygian, odious, colophon, cynosure, hardener, emollience, valetudinarian, demonym, volage, polysemantic and 259 more...
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imogen's Words
coagitate, cloche, harum-scarum, foxglove, cryptolect, cant, roux, angora, duff, ulysse, schadenfreude, pepperpot and 315 more...
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wreckingball's Words
reprehensible, problematize, crepuscular, deleterious, pestilent, strumpet, draggletail, interrobang, meretricious, systematize, schadenfreude, capricious and 443 more...
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spicolli's Words
terrapin, ravenous, fuck, sepulchral, garlic, suss, queer, curmudgeon, foodie, intricate, omphalos, subversion and 534 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (G)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
gable, gaia, gala, galaxy, gallows, gambol, garden, garland, garnet, gauntlet, gazebo, gazelle and 105 more...
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persnickety parlance
behoove, ebullient, insouciant, insipient, froth, quandary, quixotic, tendril, maktub, furrow, furl, anastrophe and 1076 more...
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The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray
Words and phrases from Chris Wooding's book, The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray.
griddle, overhead, circumscribe, mawkish, lour, coccyx, stetson, barrister, glut, heath, swill, grog and 47 more...
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otherworldly
voodoo, ouija, shaman, superstitious, séance, gris-gris, incantation, pentagram, solomon's knot, baron sunday, poltergeist, premonition and 41 more...
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ricetraitor's Words
vaticide, eyeball, pillow, deciduous, temerity, lush, vroom, catapult, cascade, bookish, banana, thrust and 18 more...
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foreign
foreign words used in English
a priori, a certiori, prima facie, hardener, sitzfleisch, weltanschauung, gotterdammerung., schadenfreude, ersatz, lebensraum, a fortiori, nihil obstat and 50 more...
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treeseed an amulet or talisman used in Voodoo, may be a small bag with several items that together are a talisman Jan 20, 2008