mumbo-jumbon.

Brit.

/ˌmʌmbəʊˈdʒʌmbəʊ/, U.S.

/ˌməmboʊˈdʒəmboʊ/, West African English

/ˌmɔmboˈdʒɔmbo/

Forms: 1700s mumbo chumbo (in sense 1b, rare), 1700s– mumbo-jumbo, 1800s mumboo-jumbow. Also (esp. in sense 1) with capital initials.

Origin: Probably a borrowing from Mandinka. Etymon: Mandinka maamajomboo.

Etymology: Probably < Mandinka maamajomboo, the name of a mask or masked dancer representing a cultic society and participating in religious ceremonies. Compare mumble-jumble v.In form Mumbo Chumbo as the title of an anti-Catholic poem, perhaps punningly after mother church n.

a. A god or spirit said to have been worshipped by certain West African peoples; a representation of this; an idol. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > idol > worshipped by specific people

mumbo-jumbo1738

swami1773

zootype1883

1738 F. Moore Trav. Inland Parts Afr. 40 A dreadful Bugbear to the Women, call'd Mumbo-Jumbo, which is what keeps the Women in awe.

1738 F. Moore Trav. Inland Parts Afr. 116 At Night, I was visited by a Mumbo Jumbo, an Idol, which is among the Mundingoes a kind of cunning Mystery... This is a Thing invented by the Men to keep their Wives in awe.

1799 M. Park Trav. Afr. (ed. 2) iv. 39 A sort of masquerade habit..which I was told..belonged to Mumbo Jumbo. This is a strange bugbear..much employed by the Pagan natives in keeping their women in subjection.

1837 T. Hood Ode R. Wilson xxiv You might have been High Priest to Mumbo-Jumbo.

1873 C. G. Leland Egyptian Sketch-bk. 83 The Savage, suggestive of wild African Mumbo-Jumbo,..will have vanished.

1925 G. K. Chesterton Everlasting Man i. iii. 69 Was a totem a thing like the British lion or a thing like the British bulldog? Was the worship of a totem like the feeling of niggers about Mumbo Jumbo, or of children about Jumbo?

1992 F. McLynn Hearts of Darkness iii. xi. 227 The name of the most powerful one worshipped in West Africa was Mumbo Jumbo.

†b. In extended use: an object of superstitious awe or blind veneration. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > object of intelligent veneration

mumbo-jumbo1773

1773 J. Robertson Poems (rev. ed.) 130 Knaves and fools paint the Almighty A Mumbo Jumbo, to affright ye.

1850 R. W. Emerson Goethe in Representative Men vii. 261 The ambitious and mercenary bring their last new mumbo-jumbo, whether tariff, Texas, railroad, Romanism, mesmerism, or California.

1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda II. iv. xxviii. 195 The name of Mompert had become a sort of Mumbo-jumbo.

1892 Atlantic Monthly Feb. 260/2 He does not undervalue the use of party, but he refuses to surrender his principles to party, or to make a Mumbo Jumbo of it.

2. colloquial. Obscure or meaningless language or ritual; jargon intended to impress or mystify; nonsense.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > [noun]

jargon1340

gibberishc1557

fustiana1593

hibber-gibber1593

rabble?1593

gabbling1599

rantum-scantum1599

ribble-rabble1601

gabble1602

High Dutch1602

Greek1603

baragouin1614

galimatias1653

riddle-me-ree1678

clink-clank1679

Hebrew1705

alieniloquy1727

jabber1735

mumbo-jumbo1738

gibbering1786

rigmarole1809

gibber1832

rigmarolery1833

Babelism1834

jargoning1837

barrikin1851

abracadabra1867

double Dutch1876

jabberwock1902

jabberwocky1908

jibber-jabber1922

mumbo-jumbery1923

mumbo1931

double-talk1938

garbology1944

1738 F. Moore Trav. Inland Parts Afr. 40 A cant language..call'd Mumbo-Jumbo.

1858 Sat. Rev. 31 July 103 The old Mumbo Jumbo of ‘unchristianizing the Legislature’ must not be consigned to the eternal limbo..without a parting exsufflation.

1870 L. M. Alcott Let. 29 June in E. D. Cheney L. M. Alcott (1889) ix. 238 We..went to vespers in the old church, where we saw a good deal of mumbo-jumbo by red, purple, and yellow priests.

1930 V. Sackville-West Edwardians vii. 328 Sebastian..swore loudly that nothing would induce him to take part in the mumbo-jumbo of the imminent Coronation.

1952 A. Grimble Pattern of Islands viii. 165 The moon was above all constraint of sorcery's mumbo-jumbo.

1964 E. Baker Fine Madness x. 97 Never mind the technical mumbo-jumbo. All we want is a simple yes or no.

1999 J. M. Coetzee Disgrace (2000) x. 84 Bev Shaw, not a veterinarian but a priestess, full of New Age mumbo jumbo.

Compounds

General attributive.The sense of quot. 1861 is unclear.

ΚΠ

1861 E. Fitzgerald Let. 9 Apr. (1980) II. 393 Yesterday I got a Sail out to Sea in spite of the Cold..the River seems like a Ditch after the old MumboJumbo Sea.

1870 J. R. Lowell Wks. (1890) III. 354 (note) The Mumbo-Jumbo revenge in Collins's ode.

1895 F. T. Elworthy Evil Eye 402 Formulæ to be uttered in mumbo-jumbo incantation.

1979 J. Johnston Old Jest 60 Ranting. Spouting mumbo-jumbo foolishness at a young person who may never care.

1999 Fortean Times 4 July 49/2 It is vital that researchers be guided toward the correct branch of science before their investigations lead them into the mumbo-jumbo factor.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mumbo-jumbo
释义	mumbo-jumbon. Brit. /ˌmʌmbəʊˈdʒʌmbəʊ/, U.S. /ˌməmboʊˈdʒəmboʊ/, West African English /ˌmɔmboˈdʒɔmbo/ Forms: 1700s mumbo chumbo (in sense 1b, rare), 1700s– mumbo-jumbo, 1800s mumboo-jumbow. Also (esp. in sense 1) with capital initials. Origin: Probably a borrowing from Mandinka. Etymon: Mandinka maamajomboo. Etymology: Probably < Mandinka maamajomboo, the name of a mask or masked dancer representing a cultic society and participating in religious ceremonies. Compare mumble-jumble v.In form Mumbo Chumbo as the title of an anti-Catholic poem, perhaps punningly after mother church n. 1. a. A god or spirit said to have been worshipped by certain West African peoples; a representation of this; an idol. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > idol > worshipped by specific people mumbo-jumbo1738 swami1773 zootype1883 1738 F. Moore Trav. Inland Parts Afr. 40 A dreadful Bugbear to the Women, call'd Mumbo-Jumbo, which is what keeps the Women in awe. 1738 F. Moore Trav. Inland Parts Afr. 116 At Night, I was visited by a Mumbo Jumbo, an Idol, which is among the Mundingoes a kind of cunning Mystery... This is a Thing invented by the Men to keep their Wives in awe. 1799 M. Park Trav. Afr. (ed. 2) iv. 39 A sort of masquerade habit..which I was told..belonged to Mumbo Jumbo. This is a strange bugbear..much employed by the Pagan natives in keeping their women in subjection. 1837 T. Hood Ode R. Wilson xxiv You might have been High Priest to Mumbo-Jumbo. 1873 C. G. Leland Egyptian Sketch-bk. 83 The Savage, suggestive of wild African Mumbo-Jumbo,..will have vanished. 1925 G. K. Chesterton Everlasting Man i. iii. 69 Was a totem a thing like the British lion or a thing like the British bulldog? Was the worship of a totem like the feeling of niggers about Mumbo Jumbo, or of children about Jumbo? 1992 F. McLynn Hearts of Darkness iii. xi. 227 The name of the most powerful one worshipped in West Africa was Mumbo Jumbo. †b. In extended use: an object of superstitious awe or blind veneration. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > object of intelligent veneration mumbo-jumbo1773 1773 J. Robertson Poems (rev. ed.) 130 Knaves and fools paint the Almighty A Mumbo Jumbo, to affright ye. 1850 R. W. Emerson Goethe in Representative Men vii. 261 The ambitious and mercenary bring their last new mumbo-jumbo, whether tariff, Texas, railroad, Romanism, mesmerism, or California. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda II. iv. xxviii. 195 The name of Mompert had become a sort of Mumbo-jumbo. 1892 Atlantic Monthly Feb. 260/2 He does not undervalue the use of party, but he refuses to surrender his principles to party, or to make a Mumbo Jumbo of it. 2. colloquial. Obscure or meaningless language or ritual; jargon intended to impress or mystify; nonsense. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > [noun] jargon1340 gibberishc1557 fustiana1593 hibber-gibber1593 rabble?1593 gabbling1599 rantum-scantum1599 ribble-rabble1601 gabble1602 High Dutch1602 Greek1603 baragouin1614 galimatias1653 riddle-me-ree1678 clink-clank1679 Hebrew1705 alieniloquy1727 jabber1735 mumbo-jumbo1738 gibbering1786 rigmarole1809 gibber1832 rigmarolery1833 Babelism1834 jargoning1837 barrikin1851 abracadabra1867 double Dutch1876 jabberwock1902 jabberwocky1908 jibber-jabber1922 mumbo-jumbery1923 mumbo1931 double-talk1938 garbology1944 1738 F. Moore Trav. Inland Parts Afr. 40 A cant language..call'd Mumbo-Jumbo. 1858 Sat. Rev. 31 July 103 The old Mumbo Jumbo of ‘unchristianizing the Legislature’ must not be consigned to the eternal limbo..without a parting exsufflation. 1870 L. M. Alcott Let. 29 June in E. D. Cheney L. M. Alcott (1889) ix. 238 We..went to vespers in the old church, where we saw a good deal of mumbo-jumbo by red, purple, and yellow priests. 1930 V. Sackville-West Edwardians vii. 328 Sebastian..swore loudly that nothing would induce him to take part in the mumbo-jumbo of the imminent Coronation. 1952 A. Grimble Pattern of Islands viii. 165 The moon was above all constraint of sorcery's mumbo-jumbo. 1964 E. Baker Fine Madness x. 97 Never mind the technical mumbo-jumbo. All we want is a simple yes or no. 1999 J. M. Coetzee Disgrace (2000) x. 84 Bev Shaw, not a veterinarian but a priestess, full of New Age mumbo jumbo. Compounds General attributive.The sense of quot. 1861 is unclear. ΚΠ 1861 E. Fitzgerald Let. 9 Apr. (1980) II. 393 Yesterday I got a Sail out to Sea in spite of the Cold..the River seems like a Ditch after the old MumboJumbo Sea. 1870 J. R. Lowell Wks. (1890) III. 354 (note) The Mumbo-Jumbo revenge in Collins's ode. 1895 F. T. Elworthy Evil Eye 402 Formulæ to be uttered in mumbo-jumbo incantation. 1979 J. Johnston Old Jest 60 Ranting. Spouting mumbo-jumbo foolishness at a young person who may never care. 1999 Fortean Times 4 July 49/2 It is vital that researchers be guided toward the correct branch of science before their investigations lead them into the mumbo-jumbo factor. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1738
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