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Definition of mumbo jumbo in English: mumbo jumbonounˌmʌmbəʊ ˈdʒʌmbəʊˌməmboʊ ˈdʒəmboʊ mass nouninformal Language or ritual causing or intended to cause confusion or bewilderment. a maze of legal mumbo jumbo Example sentencesExamples - That's because lenders continue to rely on what I call ‘confusion marketing’ - using financial mumbo-jumbo and an array of different deals to baffle us!
- But one works on it for so long that all sorts of psychological mumbo-jumbo gets bound up in it.
- Could you imagine how you would feel if you visited your doctor and he started to spout some mumbo-jumbo about your ‘humours’ being out of balance, and how the best course was for you to be purged and bled?
- It's all mumbo-jumbo, ancient rituals that for some extraordinary reason we've stuck with.
- But the programs aimed at putting these guys to work, according to the documents I'm looking at, are woefully underfunded and getting held up by the same old interagency mumbo-jumbo.
- If you don't understand all of the pseudo-psychological/philosophical mumbo-jumbo, you haven't missed the point.
- Cast away all that mumbo-jumbo new age ideas one might have about meditation.
- Effie is at Dundee University, caught up in women's liberation meetings, Socialist Worker Party sit-ins and the incomprehensible ramblings of her tutors to explain the art of the novel in terms of post-structuralist mumbo-jumbo.
- Little wonder that people switch off, or regard it as simply mumbo-jumbo.
- So, in spite of what I wrote above, I don't think we should get ourselves caught up in some sort of legal mumbo-jumbo legal definition of what ‘identify’ means.
- All that is historic mumbo-jumbo as Indonesia now turns the corner and heads for a future that could well be the envy of many.
- Eventually, I'm told, maps will be rendered redundant by Global Positioning Systems, which will mark a triumph of science over mumbo-jumbo.
- Don't tell me you actually believe in that sailor mumbo-jumbo.
- The clear distinction between right and wrong has been lost in sociological mumbo-jumbo and politically correct nonsense.
- It was if he was teasing me with the start of a question, then regressing into mumbo-jumbo just to confuse me.
- This may sound like futuristic mumbo-jumbo, and I happily confess that I wrote the preceding paragraph with an eye to catching your attention, even if only by the somewhat dangerous route of courting your immediate disapproval!
- But that's all insider mumbo-jumbo which is really neither here nor there.
- Because that's when mumbo-jumbo has taken over from reason.
- We'll worry about the legal mumbo-jumbo later, but expect the menu to remain the same.
- I don't think he is looking for handouts, just someone to shine a path for him through all the jargon and technical mumbo-jumbo.
Synonyms nonsense, gibberish, claptrap, rubbish, balderdash, blather, blether rigmarole jargon, unintelligible language, obscure language, hocus-pocus informal gobbledegook, double Dutch, argle-bargle, bull
OriginMid 18th century (as Mumbo Jumbo, denoting a supposed African idol): of unknown origin; the current sense dates from the late 19th century. Definition of mumbo jumbo in US English: mumbo jumbonounˌməmboʊ ˈdʒəmboʊˌməmbō ˈjəmbō informal Language or ritual causing or intended to cause confusion or bewilderment. a maze of legal mumbo jumbo Example sentencesExamples - But the programs aimed at putting these guys to work, according to the documents I'm looking at, are woefully underfunded and getting held up by the same old interagency mumbo-jumbo.
- So, in spite of what I wrote above, I don't think we should get ourselves caught up in some sort of legal mumbo-jumbo legal definition of what ‘identify’ means.
- That's because lenders continue to rely on what I call ‘confusion marketing’ - using financial mumbo-jumbo and an array of different deals to baffle us!
- It was if he was teasing me with the start of a question, then regressing into mumbo-jumbo just to confuse me.
- The clear distinction between right and wrong has been lost in sociological mumbo-jumbo and politically correct nonsense.
- Don't tell me you actually believe in that sailor mumbo-jumbo.
- We'll worry about the legal mumbo-jumbo later, but expect the menu to remain the same.
- I don't think he is looking for handouts, just someone to shine a path for him through all the jargon and technical mumbo-jumbo.
- Eventually, I'm told, maps will be rendered redundant by Global Positioning Systems, which will mark a triumph of science over mumbo-jumbo.
- Cast away all that mumbo-jumbo new age ideas one might have about meditation.
- But that's all insider mumbo-jumbo which is really neither here nor there.
- This may sound like futuristic mumbo-jumbo, and I happily confess that I wrote the preceding paragraph with an eye to catching your attention, even if only by the somewhat dangerous route of courting your immediate disapproval!
- Little wonder that people switch off, or regard it as simply mumbo-jumbo.
- But one works on it for so long that all sorts of psychological mumbo-jumbo gets bound up in it.
- If you don't understand all of the pseudo-psychological/philosophical mumbo-jumbo, you haven't missed the point.
- Could you imagine how you would feel if you visited your doctor and he started to spout some mumbo-jumbo about your ‘humours’ being out of balance, and how the best course was for you to be purged and bled?
- Effie is at Dundee University, caught up in women's liberation meetings, Socialist Worker Party sit-ins and the incomprehensible ramblings of her tutors to explain the art of the novel in terms of post-structuralist mumbo-jumbo.
- All that is historic mumbo-jumbo as Indonesia now turns the corner and heads for a future that could well be the envy of many.
- Because that's when mumbo-jumbo has taken over from reason.
- It's all mumbo-jumbo, ancient rituals that for some extraordinary reason we've stuck with.
Synonyms nonsense, gibberish, claptrap, rubbish, balderdash, blather, blether
OriginMid 18th century (as Mumbo Jumbo, denoting a supposed African idol): of unknown origin; the current sense dates from the late 19th century. |