| 单词 | voodoo |
| 释义 | voodoo /vooh"dooh/, n. , pl. voodoos, adj., v., voodooed, voodooing. n. 1. Also, vodun. a polytheistic religion practiced chiefly by West Indians, deriving principally from African cult worship and containing elements borrowed from the Catholic religion. 2. a person who practices this religion. 3. a fetish or other object of voodoo worship. 4. a group of magical and ecstatic rites associated with voodoo. 5. (not in technical use) black magic; sorcery. adj. 6. of, pertaining to, associated with, or practicing voodoo. 7. Informal (usually disparaging). characterized by deceptively simple, almost magical, solutions or ideas: voodoo politics. v.t. 8. to affect by voodoo sorcery. [1810-20, Amer.; < LaF, earlier vandoux, vandoo < a West African source perh. akin to Ewe vodu demon] |
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