Definitions for mumbo-jumbo

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mumbo-jumbo mum·bo jum·bo

Spelling: [muhm-boh juhm-boh]

IPA: /ˈmʌm boʊ ˈdʒʌm boʊ/

Mumbo-Jumbo is a 11 letter English word.

You can make 53 anagrams from letters in mumbo-jumbo (-bbjmmmoouu).

Definitions for mumbo-jumbo

noun

1. meaningless incantation or ritual.
2. senseless or pretentious language, usually designed to obscure an issue, confuse a listener, or the like.
3. an object of superstitious awe or reverence.
4. (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.

Origin of mumbo-jumbo

First recorded in 1730-40; of disputed orig.

Examples for mumbo-jumbo

Who, in the name of mumbo jumbo, we thought, can this Lavengro be?

He discovered that it belonged to a strange bugbear known to all the natives of the neighbourhood as mumbo jumbo.

Could any god, even a mumbo jumbo, so treated, hold its place among its votaries?

In such cases, the interposition of mumbo jumbo is called in and is always decisive.

The meeting opened with song and dance till midnight, when mumbo jumbo announced the offending wife.

Thereupon he asked me, even as you did some time ago, what I meant by mumbo jumbo?

In such cases, the interposition of mumbo jumbo is called in, and is always decisive.

To justify to men the ways of their mumbo jumbo has sorely exercised the votaries of the Atom.

Thereupon he asked me, even as you did some time ago, what I meant by mumbo jumbo.

She could as soon have attempted a theological argument with a devotee of mumbo jumbo.