jinx

jinx
n
1. curse, hex, spell, charm, incantation, conjuration, invocation, magic formula; black magic, voodoo, hoodoo, juju, evil eye, It. malocchio, Inf.Indian sign, Sl. whammy, Sl. double-whammy, Archaic. wanion; imprecation, execration, malediction.
2. bad luck, evil, misfortune, calamity, trouble; bane, affliction, scourge, plague, torment; harm, evil days or time; annoyance, vexation.
3.Jonah, bogy, bugbear, bugaboo, Inf. albatross; hobgoblin, goblin, imp, ouphe, demon, incubus, suc-cubus, devilkin, barghest; Fury, evil genius, witch, witch doctor.
v
4.Informal. bewitch, curse, hex, witch, becharm, cast a spell on. Inf. spook, Sl. put or slam the whammy on; demonize, bedevil, possess; plague, blight, scourge, injure, harm, destroy, doom; vex, trouble, beset, annoy, harass, distress, agonize, harrow; confuse, muddle, confound, frustrate; befuddle, rattle, raffle; throw off, put off, trip up, cause to fumble or stumble; mess up, cause trouble, wreck, sabotage, undermine, throw a monkey wrench in the works, Inf. bug, Inf. screw up.

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  • jinx — (j[i^][ng]ks), v. t. To bring bad luck to; to cause to malfunction or go wrong; as, some superstitious people are reluctant to predict success for fear it will jinx them. [Slang] [PJC] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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  • jinx — (n.) 1911, American English, originally baseball slang; perhaps ultimately from jyng a charm, a spell (17c.), originally wryneck, a bird used in witchcraft and divination, from L. iynx wryneck, from Gk. iynx. Most mysterious of all in the… …   Etymology dictionary

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  • jinx — [dʒıŋks] n [singular] [Date: 1900 2000; Origin: Perhaps from jynx type of bird used in doing magic (17 19 centuries), from Greek iygx] someone or something that brings bad luck, or a period of bad luck that results from this ▪ The company had… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

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  • jinx — ► NOUN ▪ a person or thing that brings bad luck. ► VERB ▪ bring bad luck to. ORIGIN probably a variant of Latin jynx «wryneck» (because the bird was used in witchcraft) …   English terms dictionary

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  • jinx — noun VERB + JINX ▪ shake off ▪ The team seems to have shaken off the jinx that s been dogging them for months. JINX + VERB ▪ hit sb, strike sb (both BrE) ▪ The injury j …   Collocations dictionary

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