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Mumbo jumbo Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Mumbo jumbo? [n] language that is unnecessarily difficult to understand [n] a state of confusion; ritual accompanied by complicated and purposeless activity that obscures and confuses; "he engaged in the hugger-mugger of international finance" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Mumbo jumbo: hugger-mugger Related Terms \| Find terms related to Mumbo jumbo: abracadabra \| absurdity \| amorphousness \| amphigory \| amulet \| anagoge \| anagogics \| anthroposophy \| argot \| babble \| babblement \| balderdash \| bibble-babble \| bilge \| blabber \| blather \| blether \| bogey \| bogeyman \| boggart \| bogle \| bombast \| booger \| boogerman \| boogeyman \| bosh \| bug \| bugaboo \| bugbear \| bugger \| bull \| bullshit \| bunkum \| cabala \| cabalism \| cant \| chant \| charm \| claptrap \| conjuration \| crap \| dark \| darkness \| double-talk \| drivel \| drool \| escamotage \| esotericism \| esoterics \| esoterism \| esotery \| eyewash \| fee-faw-fum \| fetish \| fiddledeedee \| fiddle-faddle \| flummery \| fog \| fogginess \| folderol \| formula \| fudge \| fustian \| fuzziness \| fylfot \| gabble \| galimatias \| gammadion \| gammon \| gibber \| gibberish \| gibble-gabble \| gobbledygook \| good-luck charm \| hanky-panky \| hocus-pocus \| hogwash \| hokey-pokey \| hoodoo \| hooey \| humbug \| incantation \| indeterminateness \| indistinctness \| jabber \| jabberwocky \| jargon \| jiggery-pokery \| jugglery \| juggling \| juju \| legerdemain \| lingo \| love charm \| lucky bean \| lucky piece \| madstone \| magic \| magic formula \| magic words \| malarkey \| mascot \| mist \| mistiness \| monkey business \| moonshine \| Mumbo Jumbo \| mummery \| murk \| murkiness \| mystery \| mysticism \| mystification \| narrishkeit \| niaiserie \| nonsense \| obeah \| obfuscation \| obscurantism \| obscuration \| obscurity \| occultism \| opacity \| open sesame \| pack of nonsense \| palaver \| patois \| patter \| periapt \| perplexity \| philter \| phraseology \| phylactery \| piffle \| poppycock \| prate \| prattle \| prestidigitation \| rant \| rigamarole \| rigmarole \| rite \| ritual \| rodomontade \| rot \| rubbish \| scarab \| scarabaeus \| scarabee \| scatology \| shapelessness \| skimble-skamble \| slang \| sleight of hand \| spell \| stuff and nonsense \| stultiloquence \| sudarium \| swastika \| symbolics \| symbolism \| taboo language \| talisman \| trash \| trickery \| trumpery \| twaddle \| twattle \| twiddle-twaddle \| unclarity \| unclearness \| unplainness \| vagueness \| vaporing \| vernacular \| veronica \| vocabulary \| voodoo \| vulgar language \| waffling \| whammy \| yoga \| yogeeism \| yogism See Also \| confusion \| gibber \| gibberish Mumbo jumbo In Webster's Dictionary \Mum"bo Jum`bo\ An object of superstitious homage and fear. --Carlyle. The miserable Mumbo Jumbo they paraded. --Dickens. \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.

Mumbo jumbo Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Mumbo jumbo?

[n] language that is unnecessarily difficult to understand
[n] a state of confusion; ritual accompanied by complicated and purposeless activity that obscures and confuses; "he engaged in the hugger-mugger of international finance"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Mumbo jumbo: hugger-mugger

See Also | confusion | gibber | gibberish

Mumbo jumbo In Webster's Dictionary

\Mum"bo Jum`bo\
An object of superstitious homage and fear. --Carlyle.

      The miserable Mumbo Jumbo they paraded.  --Dickens.


\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.

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