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Mum"bo Jum°bo (). An object of superstitious homage and fear. Carlyle. The miserable Mumbo Jumbo they paraded. Dickens.
Mum"bo Jum"bo (), n.[Perh. fr. the native name of an African god.] Among the Mandingos of the western Sudan, a bugbear by means of which the women are terrified and disciplined by societies of the men, one of whom assumes a masquerade for the purpose; hence, loosely, any Negro idol, fetish, or bugaboo.
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