mumbo jumbo

mumbo jumbo
n
1. incantation, chant, magic formula, magic word, invocation, conjuration, ritual; hocus-pocus, open sesame, abracadabra; charm, spell, rune, Scot. cantrip.
2. claptrap, rodomontade, fustian, bombast, rant, Sl. hot air; nonsense, fiddle-de-dee, gobbledegook, jargon, gibberish, Jabberwocky; moonshine, blather, drivel, foam, froth, humbug, bunkum, Sl. bunk, U.S. Sl. blah; flummery, Inf. hokum, Sl. applesauce, Sl. eyewash; rubbish, Sl. tripe, refuse, chaff, trash, Inf. truck, trumpery; tommyrot, Inf. rot, Sl. garbage, Sl. crap, Sl. crock, Sl. bull; balderdash, Sl. horsefeathers, hogwash, stuff, stuff and nonsense, Inf. bosh, Brit. Inf. gammon, Brit. Sl. tosh; fudge, foolishness, rigmarole, amphigory; footle, Inf. malarkey, Sl. bushwa, Sl. baloney, Sl. bilge or bilge water, Sl. meshugaas, Scot, and North Eng. haver; poppycock, Inf. fiddle-faddle, Inf. piffle, Inf. hooey, Inf. kibosh, Inf. flapdoodle.

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