billikenn.
/ˈbɪlɪkɪn/ A small, squat, smiling figure used as a mascot.
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the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > enchantment or casting spells > [noun] > charm or amulet > for luck > specific
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1914 P. G. Wodehouse Man Upstairs 257 When you send a girl three bouquets, a bracelet, and a gold Billiken with ruby eyes, you do not expect an entire absence of recognition.
1927 A. Huxley Proper Stud. 225 We now worship, under the name of mascots, lucky pigs, billikens, swastikas, and the like, a whole pantheon of fetishes which stand for nothing beyond themselves.
1927 W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 100 Before the war..there was a craze for Billikins or little oriental gods of luck.
1932 Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Nov. 829/3 Are there not modern airmen who will not go up without the moral support..from some grinning Billiken or ‘Fumsup’?
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