Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A god whose image is fantastically clothed, worshiped by certain negro tribes.
- noun Hence Any senseless object of popular idolatry.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
mumbo jumbo .
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Examples
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Some political realists are so certain that heart talk is nonsense they use rhetoric rather than reason to blow it off: "wishful thinking," "touchy-feely," "pipe dream," "spiritual mumbo-jumbo."
Parker J. Palmer: Real-World Change Can Come From Within Parker J. Palmer 2012
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Some political realists are so certain that heart talk is nonsense they use rhetoric rather than reason to blow it off: "wishful thinking," "touchy-feely," "pipe dream," "spiritual mumbo-jumbo."
Parker J. Palmer: Real-World Change Can Come From Within Parker J. Palmer 2012
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Venturing into a fog, everything after that was blurred; his words a bunch of mumbo-jumbo.
Who Said It Would Be Easy Cheryl Faye 2011
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The Courier-Journal calls this "legal mumbo-jumbo."
Barbara Coombs Lee: Good News From Kentucky! Barbara Coombs Lee 2012
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You know, sometimes the commenters on this blog are really perceptive, or at least challenging in an interesting way, and then sometimes we get the guy who claims not to know whether apartheid was bad and then backs it up with some bizarre mumbo-jumbo about serving Life with a capital L. Adam Says:
Matthew Yglesias » The Trouble With Standing Athwart History 2009
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Venturing into a fog, everything after that was blurred; his words a bunch of mumbo-jumbo.
Who Said It Would Be Easy Cheryl Faye 2011
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Some teachers will dwell on certain meta-physical mumbo-jumbo whilst teaching these techniques, but you can disregard this if you are an atheist-nerd.
The Alexander Technique Provides Short-Term Relief From Back Pain | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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I am not about to launch into some born-again mumbo-jumbo.
Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011
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I had forgotten or not heard a lot of the slang Johnson dished as he talked his locker room mumbo-jumbo.
Tattoo Machine (copy) ____Maggie 2009
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Some political realists are so certain that heart talk is nonsense they use rhetoric rather than reason to blow it off: "wishful thinking," "touchy-feely," "pipe dream," "spiritual mumbo-jumbo."
Parker J. Palmer: Real-World Change Can Come From Within Parker J. Palmer 2012
yarb commented on the word mumbo-jumbo
You live, then you die.
This is extremely simple.
You live, then you die -
no need for funny hats,
no need for mumbo-jumbo.
- Peter Reading, Ex Lab, from Diplopic, 1983
June 30, 2008
bilby commented on the word mumbo-jumbo
It's not an African aeroplane?
June 30, 2008