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Definition of Mumbo Jumbo

Mumbo Jumbo
Mumbo Jumbo Mum"bo Jum`bo An object of superstitious homage and fear. --Carlyle. The miserable Mumbo Jumbo they paraded. --Dickens.
Mumbo Jumbo
Mumbo Jumbo 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.

Meaning of Mumbo Jumbo from wikipedia

- Mumbo Jumbo is a 1972 novel by African-American author Ishmael Reed, originally published by Doubleday in New York. The novel has remained continuously...
- Mumbo jumbo, or mumbo-jumbo, is confusing or meaningless language. The phrase is often used to express humorous criticism of middle-management, and specialty...
- Look up mumbo jumbo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mumbo Jumbo commonly refers to: Mumbo jumbo (phrase), an English phrase for a meaningless ritual...
- MumboJumbo, LLC was an independent developer of games for personal computers, game consoles and mobile devices. MumboJumbo Mobile, LLC publishes entertainment...
- Mumbo Jumbo is a roller coaster which opened to the public on 4 July 2009 at Flamingo Land Resort, UK. Mumbo Jumbo is situated in the Lost Kingdom section...
- uses for most of her fantastical powers. Voiced by: Tom Kenny The Amazing Mumbo is a turquoise-skinned magician whose powers are largely based on stage...
- Mumbo Jumbo is the seventeenth studio album by English-Australian soft rock duo Air Supply, released in 2010. Two singles from the album, "Dance with...
- challenging American political culture. Perhaps his best-known work is Mumbo Jumbo (1972), a sprawling and unorthodox novel set in 1920s New York. Reed's...
- about the witch needed to defeat her, and Mumbo Jumbo, a shaman who used to be Gruntilda's teacher. Mumbo Jumbo can use magical powers to transform them...
- particularly hospitable to reckless verbosity." Francis Wheen's book How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World broadly critiques a variety of non-critical paradigms...