hoodoon.adj.

Brit.

/ˈhuːduː/, U.S.

/ˈhuˌdu/

Inflections: Plural hoodoos, (occasionally) unchanged;

Forms: 1800s– hoodoo, 1800s– hoo-doo, 1900s– houdou (rare).

Origin: Apparently a borrowing from Louisiana Creole. Etymon: Louisiana Creole houdou.

Etymology: Apparently < Louisiana Creole houdou, variant of voudou, denoting the religion (compare voodoo n. 1), in English subsequently distinguished in meaning, with a shift in emphasis away from the religion, and the development of additional senses not paralleled for voodoo n. Compare earlier voodoo n.In sense A. 5 so called on account of a perceived resemblance of some of these rock structures to demonic or fantastical beings.

Originally U.S. regional (southern, esp. in African-American usage).

A. n.

a. Any of various systems of spiritual or magical practice established among certain communities in the southern United States; (also more generally) magic, witchcraft.In early use often equated with voodoo (cf. voodoo n. 1a); later most commonly used to refer to spiritual and magical practices created among communities of enslaved Africans, incorporating elements from various religious and folk healing traditions, and sometimes equated with conjure (cf. conjure n. Additions 1).

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > non-European magic (miscellaneous) > [noun] > hoodoo

hoodoo1868

hoodooism1868

1868 Sunday Appeal (Memphis, Tennessee) 25 Oct. The word Hoodoo, or Vaudoo, is one of the names used in the different African dialects for the practice of the mysteries of the Obi, (an African word signifying a species of socery [read sorcery] and witchcraft, common among the worshippers of the Fetish).

1875 Owyhee Daily Avalanche (Silver City, Idaho Territory) 29 Mar. Thinking doubtless that we were up to some hoodoo or other.

1935 Z. N. Hurston Mules & Men ii. v. 281 It will be noted how frequently graveyard dust is required in the practice of hoodoo.

1992 R. Kenan Let Dead bury their Dead xii. 300 Now I don't know what kind of hoodoo Pharaoh used on him, but he witched the sucker good-fashioned, they tell me.

2005 J. W. Coleman Faithful Vision (2009) v. 156 Its portrayal of a black cultural milieu in which hoodoo is a significant factor.

b. figurative. Activity, practice, etc., likened in some way to this, typically in being thought to be based on magic or superstition; (with pejorative connotation) nonsense, mumbo-jumbo.

ΚΠ

1882 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds (ed. 2) xxxiv. 558 You have a wonderful story... If you can find an Indian tradition to match it, your ‘hoodoo’ is complete; for nothing sets a thing of that sort off so beautifully as an Indian tradition.

1996 Rolling Stone 18 Apr. 68/2 At last some noise with poise, a bit of fried-amplifier fun that is more tuneful hoodoo than junior-art-house hooey.

2001 L. D. Estleman Master Executioner (2002) vi. 70 There's some as..get fancy with counterweights, but that's just hoodoo for the rubes.

2. A believer in or practitioner of hoodoo (sense A. 1a). Also with the and plural agreement: believers in or practitioners of hoodoo, viewed collectively. Now rare.

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the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > non-European magic (miscellaneous) > [noun] > voodoo > spell > one who practises

gris-gris1848

voodoo1850

voodoo doctor1860

vodun1863

voodoo queen1863

voodoo king1864

voodooist1867

hoodoo1868

mamaloi1884

houngan1929

mambo1939

1868 Sunday Appeal (Memphis, Tennessee) 25 Oct. The intimate knowledge of the Hoodoos of the insidious vegetable poisons that abound in the swamps of the South.

1870 Lippincott's Mag. July 92/1 That the heathenish rites of the Hoodoo should exist in Louisiana even at the present day is..not wonderful.

1946 R. Tallant Voodoo in New Orleans 16 I heard people say hoodoos was cannibals and used to eat babies.

a. A magic spell, typically one causing harm or misfortune; a curse, a jinx; (as a mass noun) misfortune, bad luck.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > non-European magic (miscellaneous) > [noun] > hoodoo > spell

hoodoo1868

trick1893

1868 Sunday Appeal (Memphis, Tennessee) 25 Oct. He determined to find out the ‘hoodoo’, and how it had been used.

1889 Sun (N.Y.) 20 Mar. 4/3 The prospect of pleasing his party and at the same time escaping a hoodoo must be irresistibly attractive.

1926 Scots Observer 30 Oct. 21/2 That particular service was hoodoo.

1958 L. van der Post Lost World of Kalahari viii. 195 By nightfall everyone..seemed convinced there was a permanent hoodoo on us.

2002 Times 22 July 26/8 They moved a step closer to breaking that hoodoo with a 156–96 quarter-final win over Lincolnshire at Brampton.

b. A person or thing thought to bring or cause bad luck.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [noun] > misfortune or ill-luck > causing or bringing misfortune > one who or that which

foota1225

woea1300

infortunec1405

infortunate1558

jettatura1822

bad medicine1857

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jinx1911

mock1911

mocker1923

kiss of death1948

the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > non-European magic (miscellaneous) > [noun] > hoodoo > person or thing causing

hoodoo1882

1882 Sun (N.Y.) 15 May 3/3 Others will not play while a certain person is present, having determined in his mind that the individual has an evil eye—or, in the language of the profession, is a ‘hoodoo’.

1900 G. Patten Rockspur Nine xx. 174 He's a hoodoo to us whether he plays with us or against us.

1924 Adventure 20 Oct. 47/1 That Hartwell place is a hoodoo, I tell yuh. Every time we show up there we run into death.

2009 Taranaki (N.Z.) Daily News (Nexis) 22 Apr. 13 Peter's not here today. He reckons he's a hoodoo so stays away.

†4. U.S. A business, an affair; a to-do, a commotion, a fuss. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > [noun] > business claiming attention > an occupation or affair

charec897

matter?c1225

journeya1352

affairc1390

notea1400

incident1485

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actiona1500

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game1812

caper1839

pigeon dropping1850

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hoodoo1876

racket1880

palaver1899

scene1964

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > commotion, disturbance, or disorder > [noun] > instance of

viretotec1386

moving?a1439

reela1450

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songa1500

pirrie1536

hurly-burly1548

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splorea1791

rook1808

piece of work1810

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hurroosh1836

fustle1839

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hoo-ha1931

tra-la-la1933

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kerfuffle1946

1876 Belmont (St. Clairsville, Ohio) Chron. 8 June 3/2 We would suggest that for the coming hoodoo, that the committee of arrangements make a call for all those in the county who participated in the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary [of the Nation's independence] to join with us in observing the one hundredth.

1881 Globe (Atchison, Kansas) 13 Sept. Advertising a temperance hoodoo for Sunday, September 18th.

1928 C. F. S. Gamble Story N. Sea Air Station xii. 162 On about five successive nights..a Zeppelin would be reported approaching the coast somewhere on our beat. Result—a general ‘hoo-doo’.

5. Originally and chiefly North American. A column or pinnacle of rock shaped by weathering, typically in arid regions, and often having a cap of harder rock; an earth pillar. Also more fully hoodoo column, hoodoo pillar, etc.

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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > rocky peak > [noun]

tor847

pinnaclec1330

rassec1400

spire1586

prick1604

needle1721

pillar1780

needle rock1784

aiguille1816

nunatak1877

hoodoo1880

1880 P. W. Norris in Rep. Secretary of Interior (U.S.) II. 578 Actual observation is absolutely necessary to adequately impress the mind with the wild unearthly appearance of these eroded Hoodoos of the Goblin Land.

1883 W. Whitman Specimen Days in Specimen Days & Collect 148 I had wanted to go to the Yellowstone river region—wanted specially to see..the ‘hoodoo’ or goblin land of that country.

1921 Chambers's Jrnl. June 373/2 Strange, isolated pillars, the ‘hoodoos’ stood like vedettes on the heights.

1941 C. A. Cotton Landscape iii. 15 The picturesque minor surface-relief forms termed hoodoo columns and earth pillars are slender residual columns of unconsolidated sediment.

1989 E. Hoagland Abbey's Road in Balancing Acts (1992) 258 Talking with him of hoodoo stone pillars and red-rock canyons, I've seldom felt closer to anybody.

2004 Philadelphia Inquirer 13 June n6/2 I'd seen pictures of Bryce's narrow, craggy orange hoodoos, which make the canyon look like a giant, haunted chess board.

B. adj. (in attributive use).

That is a hoodoo (in sense A. 3b); bringing or afflicted by bad luck, unlucky.

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the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [adjective] > causing or bringing misfortune

unwealful1412

unluckful1542

infortunate1548

unluckly1564

unluckya1586

unfortunating1647

hoodoo1882

1882 J. J. Jennings Theatr. & Circus Life ix. 139 Their eternal talk about Jonahs, unlucky houses, hoodoo managers and the like.

1904 N.Y. Globe 2 Apr. 1 It is hard to find a crew for a ‘hoodoo’ ship.

1947 B. Feller Strikeout Story xi. 97 The city was his hoodoo town and he couldn't win there no matter how well he was going.

1966 Listener 14 Apr. 542/3 Hoodoo-ism is not confined to steam locomotives. I have known a hoodoo diesel rail car.

2000 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 27 Nov. 8 The hearts of Australian batsmen are said to skip a beat the moment they reach 87, which..is said to be their hoodoo number.

Phrases

to put a (or the) hoodoo on and variants: to curse or bewitch (a person or thing); to bring bad luck to (a person or thing). Cf. hoodoo v. 1, to put voodoo on at voodoo n. Phrases.

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1878 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 21 Oct. 3/2 When the feller you're playin' with, puts the prayer hoodoo on the keerds [i.e. cards],..there ain't no show for such as me.

1879 Daily Examiner (San Francisco) 14 Mar. 1/3 When you see a town gettin' down to Young Men's Christian Associations and readin' rooms,..and the pious fellers git so they tackle you on the street and call you a hoary-headed old sinner,..it's time to move out for another country. It puts a hoodoo on the place.

1921 Everybody's Mag. July 140/2 Our brother here has put a hoodoo on my meetings by saying any man who comes to them has got to fight him afterward.

1948 Evening Tel. & Post (Dundee) 5 Oct. 8/1 A bogy team to Dunfermline Vikings last season were Glasgow Bruins. In the drawn game with Flyers..two ex-Bruins put the hoodoo on Vikings.

2010 Sunday Times (Nexis) 22 Aug. (Culture section) He doesn't want to put a hoodoo on a series that hasn't aired yet by saying it's better than the film.

Compounds

As a modifier (in sense A. 1a).

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1868 Sunday Appeal (Memphis, Tennessee) 25 Oct. The practicers of the art, who are always native Africans, are called Hoodoo men or women.

1875 Irish Times 22 Nov. 3/5 It was ‘Hoodoo sickness’, produced by the witchery of some one who had a grudge against her.

1946 R. Tallant Voodoo in New Orleans 195 I got Adele to a good hoodoo woman and she uncrossed her.

1995 C. Sagan Demon-haunted World ix. 161 A Louisiana schoolteacher..was—she and her sisters believed after consultation with a hoodoo practitioner—possessed by demons.

2003 New Yorker 18 Aug. 12/3 The couple, the siblings, and a cast of lost souls (which includes hoodoo puppets) communicate in sung verse.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	hoodoo
释义	hoodoon.adj. Brit. /ˈhuːduː/, U.S. /ˈhuˌdu/ Inflections: Plural hoodoos, (occasionally) unchanged; Forms: 1800s– hoodoo, 1800s– hoo-doo, 1900s– houdou (rare). Origin: Apparently a borrowing from Louisiana Creole. Etymon: Louisiana Creole houdou. Etymology: Apparently < Louisiana Creole houdou, variant of voudou, denoting the religion (compare voodoo n. 1), in English subsequently distinguished in meaning, with a shift in emphasis away from the religion, and the development of additional senses not paralleled for voodoo n. Compare earlier voodoo n.In sense A. 5 so called on account of a perceived resemblance of some of these rock structures to demonic or fantastical beings. Originally U.S. regional (southern, esp. in African-American usage). A. n. 1. a. Any of various systems of spiritual or magical practice established among certain communities in the southern United States; (also more generally) magic, witchcraft.In early use often equated with voodoo (cf. voodoo n. 1a); later most commonly used to refer to spiritual and magical practices created among communities of enslaved Africans, incorporating elements from various religious and folk healing traditions, and sometimes equated with conjure (cf. conjure n. Additions 1). ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > non-European magic (miscellaneous) > [noun] > hoodoo hoodoo1868 hoodooism1868 1868 Sunday Appeal (Memphis, Tennessee) 25 Oct. The word Hoodoo, or Vaudoo, is one of the names used in the different African dialects for the practice of the mysteries of the Obi, (an African word signifying a species of socery [read sorcery] and witchcraft, common among the worshippers of the Fetish). 1875 Owyhee Daily Avalanche (Silver City, Idaho Territory) 29 Mar. Thinking doubtless that we were up to some hoodoo or other. 1935 Z. N. Hurston Mules & Men ii. v. 281 It will be noted how frequently graveyard dust is required in the practice of hoodoo. 1992 R. Kenan Let Dead bury their Dead xii. 300 Now I don't know what kind of hoodoo Pharaoh used on him, but he witched the sucker good-fashioned, they tell me. 2005 J. W. Coleman Faithful Vision (2009) v. 156 Its portrayal of a black cultural milieu in which hoodoo is a significant factor. b. figurative. Activity, practice, etc., likened in some way to this, typically in being thought to be based on magic or superstition; (with pejorative connotation) nonsense, mumbo-jumbo. ΚΠ 1882 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds (ed. 2) xxxiv. 558 You have a wonderful story... If you can find an Indian tradition to match it, your ‘hoodoo’ is complete; for nothing sets a thing of that sort off so beautifully as an Indian tradition. 1996 Rolling Stone 18 Apr. 68/2 At last some noise with poise, a bit of fried-amplifier fun that is more tuneful hoodoo than junior-art-house hooey. 2001 L. D. Estleman Master Executioner (2002) vi. 70 There's some as..get fancy with counterweights, but that's just hoodoo for the rubes. 2. A believer in or practitioner of hoodoo (sense A. 1a). Also with the and plural agreement: believers in or practitioners of hoodoo, viewed collectively. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > non-European magic (miscellaneous) > [noun] > voodoo > spell > one who practises gris-gris1848 voodoo1850 voodoo doctor1860 vodun1863 voodoo queen1863 voodoo king1864 voodooist1867 hoodoo1868 mamaloi1884 houngan1929 mambo1939 1868 Sunday Appeal (Memphis, Tennessee) 25 Oct. The intimate knowledge of the Hoodoos of the insidious vegetable poisons that abound in the swamps of the South. 1870 Lippincott's Mag. July 92/1 That the heathenish rites of the Hoodoo should exist in Louisiana even at the present day is..not wonderful. 1946 R. Tallant Voodoo in New Orleans 16 I heard people say hoodoos was cannibals and used to eat babies. 3. a. A magic spell, typically one causing harm or misfortune; a curse, a jinx; (as a mass noun) misfortune, bad luck. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > non-European magic (miscellaneous) > [noun] > hoodoo > spell hoodoo1868 trick1893 1868 Sunday Appeal (Memphis, Tennessee) 25 Oct. He determined to find out the ‘hoodoo’, and how it had been used. 1889 Sun (N.Y.) 20 Mar. 4/3 The prospect of pleasing his party and at the same time escaping a hoodoo must be irresistibly attractive. 1926 Scots Observer 30 Oct. 21/2 That particular service was hoodoo. 1958 L. van der Post Lost World of Kalahari viii. 195 By nightfall everyone..seemed convinced there was a permanent hoodoo on us. 2002 Times 22 July 26/8 They moved a step closer to breaking that hoodoo with a 156–96 quarter-final win over Lincolnshire at Brampton. b. A person or thing thought to bring or cause bad luck. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [noun] > misfortune or ill-luck > causing or bringing misfortune > one who or that which foota1225 woea1300 infortunec1405 infortunate1558 jettatura1822 bad medicine1857 hoodoo1882 voodoo1902 jinx1911 mock1911 mocker1923 kiss of death1948 the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > non-European magic (miscellaneous) > [noun] > hoodoo > person or thing causing hoodoo1882 1882 Sun (N.Y.) 15 May 3/3 Others will not play while a certain person is present, having determined in his mind that the individual has an evil eye—or, in the language of the profession, is a ‘hoodoo’. 1900 G. Patten Rockspur Nine xx. 174 He's a hoodoo to us whether he plays with us or against us. 1924 Adventure 20 Oct. 47/1 That Hartwell place is a hoodoo, I tell yuh. Every time we show up there we run into death. 2009 Taranaki (N.Z.) Daily News (Nexis) 22 Apr. 13 Peter's not here today. He reckons he's a hoodoo so stays away. †4. U.S. A business, an affair; a to-do, a commotion, a fuss. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > [noun] > business claiming attention > an occupation or affair charec897 matter?c1225 journeya1352 affairc1390 notea1400 incident1485 concernment1495 actiona1500 business1524 concern1680 job1680 ploya1689 show1797 game1812 caper1839 pigeon dropping1850 shebang1869 hoodoo1876 racket1880 palaver1899 scene1964 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > commotion, disturbance, or disorder > [noun] > instance of viretotec1386 moving?a1439 reela1450 stir1487 songa1500 pirrie1536 hurly-burly1548 make-a-do1575 confusions1599 the hunt is upa1625 ruffle1642 fuss1701 fraction1721 fizza1734 dust1753 noration1773 steeriea1776 splorea1791 rook1808 piece of work1810 curfuffle1813 squall1813 rookerya1820 stushie1824 shindy1829 shine1832 hurroosh1836 fustle1839 upsetting1847 shinty1848 ructions1862 vex1862 houp-la1870 set-out1875 hoodoo1876 tingle-tangle1880 shemozzle1885 take-on1893 dust-up1897 hoo-ha1931 tra-la-la1933 gefuffle1943 tzimmes1945 kerfuffle1946 1876 Belmont (St. Clairsville, Ohio) Chron. 8 June 3/2 We would suggest that for the coming hoodoo, that the committee of arrangements make a call for all those in the county who participated in the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary [of the Nation's independence] to join with us in observing the one hundredth. 1881 Globe (Atchison, Kansas) 13 Sept. Advertising a temperance hoodoo for Sunday, September 18th. 1928 C. F. S. Gamble Story N. Sea Air Station xii. 162 On about five successive nights..a Zeppelin would be reported approaching the coast somewhere on our beat. Result—a general ‘hoo-doo’. 5. Originally and chiefly North American. A column or pinnacle of rock shaped by weathering, typically in arid regions, and often having a cap of harder rock; an earth pillar. Also more fully hoodoo column, hoodoo pillar, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > rocky peak > [noun] tor847 pinnaclec1330 rassec1400 spire1586 prick1604 needle1721 pillar1780 needle rock1784 aiguille1816 nunatak1877 hoodoo1880 1880 P. W. Norris in Rep. Secretary of Interior (U.S.) II. 578 Actual observation is absolutely necessary to adequately impress the mind with the wild unearthly appearance of these eroded Hoodoos of the Goblin Land. 1883 W. Whitman Specimen Days in Specimen Days & Collect 148 I had wanted to go to the Yellowstone river region—wanted specially to see..the ‘hoodoo’ or goblin land of that country. 1921 Chambers's Jrnl. June 373/2 Strange, isolated pillars, the ‘hoodoos’ stood like vedettes on the heights. 1941 C. A. Cotton Landscape iii. 15 The picturesque minor surface-relief forms termed hoodoo columns and earth pillars are slender residual columns of unconsolidated sediment. 1989 E. Hoagland Abbey's Road in Balancing Acts (1992) 258 Talking with him of hoodoo stone pillars and red-rock canyons, I've seldom felt closer to anybody. 2004 Philadelphia Inquirer 13 June n6/2 I'd seen pictures of Bryce's narrow, craggy orange hoodoos, which make the canyon look like a giant, haunted chess board. B. adj. (in attributive use). That is a hoodoo (in sense A. 3b); bringing or afflicted by bad luck, unlucky. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [adjective] > causing or bringing misfortune unwealful1412 unluckful1542 infortunate1548 unluckly1564 unluckya1586 unfortunating1647 hoodoo1882 1882 J. J. Jennings Theatr. & Circus Life ix. 139 Their eternal talk about Jonahs, unlucky houses, hoodoo managers and the like. 1904 N.Y. Globe 2 Apr. 1 It is hard to find a crew for a ‘hoodoo’ ship. 1947 B. Feller Strikeout Story xi. 97 The city was his hoodoo town and he couldn't win there no matter how well he was going. 1966 Listener 14 Apr. 542/3 Hoodoo-ism is not confined to steam locomotives. I have known a hoodoo diesel rail car. 2000 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 27 Nov. 8 The hearts of Australian batsmen are said to skip a beat the moment they reach 87, which..is said to be their hoodoo number. Phrases to put a (or the) hoodoo on and variants: to curse or bewitch (a person or thing); to bring bad luck to (a person or thing). Cf. hoodoo v. 1, to put voodoo on at voodoo n. Phrases. ΚΠ 1878 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 21 Oct. 3/2 When the feller you're playin' with, puts the prayer hoodoo on the keerds [i.e. cards],..there ain't no show for such as me. 1879 Daily Examiner (San Francisco) 14 Mar. 1/3 When you see a town gettin' down to Young Men's Christian Associations and readin' rooms,..and the pious fellers git so they tackle you on the street and call you a hoary-headed old sinner,..it's time to move out for another country. It puts a hoodoo on the place. 1921 Everybody's Mag. July 140/2 Our brother here has put a hoodoo on my meetings by saying any man who comes to them has got to fight him afterward. 1948 Evening Tel. & Post (Dundee) 5 Oct. 8/1 A bogy team to Dunfermline Vikings last season were Glasgow Bruins. In the drawn game with Flyers..two ex-Bruins put the hoodoo on Vikings. 2010 Sunday Times (Nexis) 22 Aug. (Culture section) He doesn't want to put a hoodoo on a series that hasn't aired yet by saying it's better than the film. Compounds As a modifier (in sense A. 1a). ΚΠ 1868 Sunday Appeal (Memphis, Tennessee) 25 Oct. The practicers of the art, who are always native Africans, are called Hoodoo men or women. 1875 Irish Times 22 Nov. 3/5 It was ‘Hoodoo sickness’, produced by the witchery of some one who had a grudge against her. 1946 R. Tallant Voodoo in New Orleans 195 I got Adele to a good hoodoo woman and she uncrossed her. 1995 C. Sagan Demon-haunted World ix. 161 A Louisiana schoolteacher..was—she and her sisters believed after consultation with a hoodoo practitioner—possessed by demons. 2003 New Yorker 18 Aug. 12/3 The couple, the siblings, and a cast of lost souls (which includes hoodoo puppets) communicate in sung verse. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). hoodoov. Brit. /ˈhuːduː/, U.S. /ˈhuˌdu/ Forms: see hoodoo n. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: hoodoo n. Etymology: < hoodoo n. Compare slightly earlier voodoo v. Originally U.S. regional (southern, esp. in African-American usage). 1. transitive. Originally: to curse or bewitch (a person or thing). Later also: to bring bad luck to (a person or thing); to jinx. Cf. voodoo v., to put a hoodoo on at hoodoo n. and adj. Phrases. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > have befallen as a misfortune to [verb (transitive)] > render unfortunate infortunate1571 unfortunate1653 hoodoo1868 jonah1887 jinx1917 the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > non-European magic (miscellaneous) > [verb (transitive)] > practise hoodoo on hoodoo1868 1868 Sunday Appeal (Memphis, Tennessee) 25 Oct. The person to be hoodooed is generally made aware that the hoodoo is ‘set’ for him. 1888 Judge (U.S.) 21 July 239/2 A Washington paper..drops into the following poetry, which is sufficient to hoodoo the organization for the balance of the season. 1902 R. Kipling Traffics & Discov. (1904) 7 I wasn't going to deadhead along o' that crowd... 'Twould have hoodooed my gun for all time. 1947 N.Y. Times Mag. 29 June 24/2 Back in the summer of 1939 I thought I'd hoodooed the Giants. 2010 D. Alvarado Voodoo Doll. Spellbk. (2014) xvi. 143 High John the Conqueror root is believed to be an effective talisman in itself... Indeed, it is a powerful mechanism of protection against being hoodooed. 2. transitive. U.S. colloquial or regional. To trick, deceive, or cheat (a person). Now rare. ΚΠ 1890 Brooklyn Daily Eagle 10 June Edward Stevens..hoodooed him out of $700. 1908 Dial. Notes 3 321 He hoo-dooed me out of all I had. 1976 A. Garber Mountain-ese 43 Don't let that shyster hoo-doo you out uv your backer [= tobacco] crop. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1868v.1868
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hoodoon.adj.

Phrases

Compounds

hoodoov.