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单词
mumbo-jumbo
释义
mumbo-jumbo
mum‧bo-jum‧bo
/
ˌmʌmbəʊ ˈdʒʌmbəʊ
$
-boʊ ˈdʒʌmboʊ
/
noun
[uncountable]
informal
Word Origin
WORD ORIGIN
mumbo-jumbo
Origin:
1700-1800
Mumbo Jumbo
name of a supposed African god
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
legal
mumbo
-jumbo
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
All of this
mumbo
-jumbo masks a large vacuum of uncertainty.
His daughter Amanda sat at his bedside in stiff, pout-lipped profile, reading some piece of religious
mumbo
-jumbo.
Meaningless
mumbo
-jumbo designed to stall and delay.
Plotinus wrote his most impassioned tract to attack Gnosticism as pretentious
mumbo
-jumbo.
You can't do, not when you've been at pains to tell me what rubbish all this astrological
mumbo
-jumbo is.
technical language that is difficult to understand and seems to have no sense
:
a bunch of legal mumbo-jumbo
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daguerreotype
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dahlia
Dahl, Roald
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Dail
daily
Daily Express, The
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