Hoodoo Definition

ho͝odo͝o
hoodoos
noun
hoodoos
Webster's New World
Magic healing and control, especially in African-based folk medicine in the United States and the Caribbean.
American Heritage
A practitioner of hoodoo.
American Heritage
Voodoo.
American Heritage
Bad luck.
Webster's New World
verb
hoodoos
To practice hoodoo on; affect with a charm or curse.
American Heritage
To cast a spell on or otherwise bring bad luck to.
Webster's New World
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Noun

Singular:
hoodoo
Plural:
hoodoos

Origin of Hoodoo

  • Possibly an alteration of voodoo or from Hausa, hu'du'ba/hu3'du3'ba1 (“to arouse resentment”). In English, meaning altered to “bring bad luck”, then applied to things thought to bring bad luck, including the thin spires of rock now called hoodoos.

    From Wiktionary

  • Of West African origin possibly from voodoo

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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