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According to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary: Mumbo Jumbo is a noun and is the name of a grotesque idol said to have been worshipped by some tribes. In its figurative sense, Mumbo Jumbo is an object of senseless veneration or a meaningless ritual. According to the 1803 Supplement to Encyclopædia Britannica Third Edition:
Mumbo Jumbo commonly refers to: Mumbo jumbo (phrase), an English phrase for a meaningless ritual ... a 1981 song by Squeeze on the album East Side Story "Mumbo Jumbo
Given that the protagonists of the novel are Voodoo practitioners, the novel itself contains a great deal of Voodoo terminology. In the novel, Voodoo is an effective art: PaPa LaBas practices from his Mumbo Jumbo Kathedral, and at one point his assistant is taken over by a loa whom she has neglected to feed.
impi – from Zulu language meaning war, battle or a regiment; indaba – from Xhosa or Zulu languages – 'stories' or 'news' typically conflated with 'meeting' (often used in South African English) isango – Zulu meaning gateway; jumbo – from Swahili (jambo or jumbe or from Kongo nzamba "elephant") kalimba
Rhyming reduplication (as in "Hobson-Jobson" or "puli kili") is highly productive in South Asian languages, where it is known popularly as an echo word. In English, however, rhyming reduplication is generally either juvenile (as in Humpty Dumpty or hokey-pokey) or pejorative (as in namby-pamby or mumbo-jumbo); further, Hobson and Jobson were ...
In American radio, film, television, and video games, walla is a sound effect imitating the murmur of a crowd in the background. [1] A group of actors brought together in the post-production stage of film production to create this murmur is known as a walla group.
Jumbo loans come in larger amounts, typically for more expensive properties. The size of a jumbo loan varies by geographic location, but is generally more than $766,550 in most parts of the U.S ...
Source Code is a 2011 U.S. science fiction action thriller film [4] directed by Duncan Jones and written by Ben Ripley.It stars Jake Gyllenhaal as Captain Colter Stevens of the U.S. Army, who is sent into an eight-minute virtual re-creation of a real-life train explosion, and tasked with determining the identity of the terrorist who bombed it.