Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An object used as a fetish, a charm, or an amulet in West Africa.
- n. The supernatural power ascribed to such an object.
- n. A style of Nigerian popular music featuring electric guitars and traditional drums.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Anything supernatural or mysterious, and an object of religious fear or veneration; a charm; a fetish; also, an observance of mysterious significance like the taboo: used in relation to the religious ideas of the negroes of West Africa.
Wiktionary
- n. A fetish or charm believed by West Africans to have magical or supernatural powers.
- n. The magical or supernatural power of such a charm.
- n. A superstitious belief in the karmic consequences of an action or behavior, usually negative in connotation.
- n. A type of music popular in Nigeria. (See Jùjú music)
- n. slang A marijuana cigarette; a joint.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. the magical power associated with a juju{2}.
- n. An object superstitiously believed to embody magical powers; a fetish.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers
- n. the power associated with a juju
Etymologies
- Reduplication of -ju- in marijuana. (Wiktionary)
- Hausa jūjū, fetish, evil spirit. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I get bad juju from the fat one sitting in the chair, lurking in the corner.”
“Bad juju is found in penalizing millions of people that disagree.”
“One theory about the name juju is that it comes from a Yoruba word for playing a tambourine.”
“King Sunny Adé has sold millions of records playing a type of music called juju, which derives from Salvation Army music heard in Nigeria in the 1930s.”
“First thing that comes to mind Name 1 aber from your first letter from your first name juju bee My name: Esperanza”
“As his tour bus rolls between dates in Minnesota and Illinois, Adé, whose given name is Sunday Adeniyi, ruminates over the phone on the differences between the upbeat music he plays called juju - a Nigerian word for magic - and the Afrobeat of the late Fela Kuti, his nation's other leading musical exponent.”
“CARLOS WAS ABOUT TWELVE THE FIRST TIME HE WENT TO A witchdoctor in search of objects infused with supernatural powers, known as juju.”
“jazz being a colloquial euphemism for what I suppose the Westerner would call juju”
To google or not to google,a sense of deja vu and jazzed liberal democrats
“Sigh …. lol no … no 'juju' my little friend … Toshiba is NOT finished ….”
“For all intents and purposes, this "juju" is printed.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘juju’.
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Substancestry
Mysterious and theoretical substances and "stuff" of legend. More emphasis on the ancient, mystical, mythical, folklore, mathematical, and scientific. I won't be listing too many "sci-fi" or comed...
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Reduples
Go for it, brothers and sisters! I personally have been suffering long for lack of an open reduplicatives list
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A Sequel to 250 Spelling Words
Words to quiz the intermediate and advanced speller alike
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October 2011
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charms
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Keyboard Hopscotch
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♥
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maygra
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Favorite Foods
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Professional Scrabble Lexicon (TWL)
A myriad of game-changing words every Scrabble addict must have in his arsenal.
Keep in mind that these are all tried-and-true feasibly playable words selected for their handiness, i.e...paragon, pignora, ganef, suttee, origan, ohia, aioli, abasement, lehr, mho, tallow, harelike and 843 more...
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Finnegan
...from swerve of shore to bend of bay,...all's fair in vannesy...and in Finnegans Wake.
Other terms used or coined by Joyce may be found at inkhorn's list Joycean Vocab.riverrun, wielderfight, vannesy, arclight, ringsome, tumptytumtoes, sinduced, neatlight, baubletop, troublant, nabir, wabsanti and 765 more...
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dickcherry's drivel
the words i'm thinking with
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for juju.
edwardvielmetti variously "good juju" or "bad juju"; cf. mojo. Oct 18, 2008
Prolagus Based on v.'s list, Dictionary.com is repeating itself today. Aug 21, 2008