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▪ I. mojo1 local U.S.|ˈməʊdʒəʊ|
[Prob. of Afr. orig.: cf. Gullah moco witchcraft, magic, Fula moco'o medicine man.]
Magic, the art of casting spells; a charm or amulet used in such spells. Also attrib. and as v.
1926N. N. Puckett Folk Beliefs Southern Negro i. 19 The term mojo is often used by the Mississippi Negroes to mean ‘charms, amulets, or tricks’, as ‘to work mojo’ on a person or ‘to carry a mojo’. 1930R. Bass in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 382/2 There are a few signs that are more or less common to all mojo-workers. Ibid. 384/2 [Of the deepest South] Their mojo is not fakery. It is not trickery. It is magic... Mojo is making its last stand. It has retreated to the swamp-lands. 1934B. A. Botkin in W. T. Couch Culture in South xxvi. 585 Fragments of hoodoo and conjuration, whose spells,..mojos,..goofer bags are the special province of the Negro ‘root doctor’ or ‘hoodoo man’. 1962N. E. Whitten in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 406/1 Local names for amulets are ‘mojo’, ‘monjo’, ‘lucky hand’..and ‘jomo’. 1966Crescendo Aug. 3/2 With his weather mojo working overtime he got four hot sunny days. 1970R. Welburn in A. Chapman New Black Voices (1972) 356 It is overdue time To mojo the demons... Now it is time for mojo. 1971Black World Apr. 81 A Mojo..a Mojo workin for you. 1973C. Himes Black on Black 18 Slick (in a whining voice): You got the best go and the mojo.
▪ II. mojo2 U.S.|ˈməʊdʒəʊ|
[Orig. unknown: see quot. 1955.]
An addict's name for any narcotic drug, esp. morphine.
1935A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 77/1 Mojo, any of the poisonous habit forming narcotics (dope). 1955Amer. Speech XXX. 87 Mojo (probably from Sp. mojar, ‘to celebrate by drinking’)..a euphemism for morphine. 1963R. I. McDavid Mencken's Amer. Lang. 725 An addict well supplied is on the mojo and is said to be in high. 1971E. E. Landy Underground Dict. 134 Mojo,..morphine. |