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Hoodoo   Listen
noun
Hoodoo  n.  
1.
One who causes bad luck. (Colloq.)
2.
Same as voodoo.
3.
Bad luck.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Hoodoo" Quotes from Famous Books



... say there was God's curse on this Klondike gold," he said; "now I'm sure of it. There's a hoodoo on it. What it's a-goin' to cost, what hearts it's goin' to break, what homes it's goin' to wreck no man'll ever know. God only knows what it's cost already. But this last ...
— The Trail of '98 - A Northland Romance • Robert W. Service
... callouses. I kicked the fire down to a nice bed of coals and then the coffee-pot upset and put it out. Ashes got into the bacon, and—Oh! you know how joyful it is to cook on a green fire when you're dead tired and your hoodoo's on vicious. ...
— Pardners • Rex Beach
... again. Oh, dear, I was never so sorry for a high-born lady in my life, but to encourage her I told her I read of a white woman in Alabama that turned black in a single night, and the niggers would never have anything to say to her, because she was a hoodoo, and wasn't in their class, and then she yelled again and wanted me to send for a doctor, and I told her there wasn't any negro doctor in town, and what she wanted was to send for a scrubwoman, and then I showed her the box of shoe paste and ...
— Peck's Uncle Ike and The Red Headed Boy - 1899 • George W. Peck
... moment about sweeping out offices and going to work," Steve insisted. "If you want to break the hoodoo you have just brought on yourself by smashing up wedding cake—let me talk and ...
— The Gorgeous Girl • Nalbro Bartley
... would you; bless me if he ain't got some white sheets, and a regular nightgown. Now, what dye think of that, fellows? Are we going to allow such sissy goings-on in this, our first camp? He'd hoodoo the whole business, sure. No luck with such baby play. Use the sheets for towels when we go in swimming; I've got an extra pair of pajamas along, that I'll lend him, if he promises to be a true scout, ready to rough and ready it in camp. Next thing he'll be pulling ...
— The Boy Scouts' First Camp Fire - or, Scouting with the Silver Fox Patrol • Herbert Carter


Words linked to "Hoodoo" :   geology, voodooism, priest, tower, object, charm, physical object, fetich, column, vodoun


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