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  • noun A confidence trick in which the victim is falsely diagnosed with a curse or other ailment that can supposedly only be cured by the trickster.

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Examples

  • The second scene opens with a strong sextet ( "Sola, sola, in bujo loco"), followed by the ludicrously solemn appeal of Leporello, "Ah! pieta, signori miei," and that aria beloved of all tenors, "Il mio tesoro."

    The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers 1876

  • I learned that this kind of all-in-one journal is often called a bullet journal—which is an officially trademarked term for Ryder Carroll's bullet journaling methodology, often shortened to Bujo.

    AI stream journaling experiment <a href=‘/aboutme/’>Tom Johnson</a> 2024

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  • spotted as a shortening of Bullet Journaling

    keeping a journal

    September 16, 2019