hoodoo

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈhuːduː/    美 /ˈhudu/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A set of spiritual practices and traditions created and concealed from slave-owners by enslaved Africans in North America, based on traditional African beliefs. uncountable
  2. A practitioner of voodoo. US,countable,uncountable
  3. Supernatural bad luck, or something or someone believed to bring bad luck. US,countable,uncountable
    — The three men wondered whether they would find Colson at Taylor's Creek. They felt that a hoodoo hung over the place.
  4. A tall thin spire of rock that protrudes from the bottom of arid basins and badlands. countable,uncountable
    — It was even larger than the mirage made it look—a dozen miles across and a thousand feet deep, with fins and towers and hoodoos like observation posts, mesas and minor buttes, springs flowing brightly in the red rock.
动词 v.
  1. To jinx; to bring bad luck or misfortune to. transitive

词形变化

hoodoos plural hoodoos present,singular,third-person hoodooing participle,present hoodooed participle,past hoodooed past

词汇关系

衍生词
hoodooer hoodooism hoodooist

词源

词源 1
Apparently an alteration of voodoo.
词源 2
Apparently an alteration of voodoo.
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