mumbo-jumbo
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mumbo-jumbo |
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abracadabra, bilge, blather, blether, bosh, bull, bullshit, bunkum, chant, charm, claptrap, conjuration, crap, double-talk, drivel, eyewash, formula, gibberish, gobbledygook, hocus-pocus, hogwash, hooey, humbug, incantation,
jabberwocky, magic, malarkey,
moonshine, nonsense, piffle, poppycock, rigamarole, rigmarole, rite, ritual,
rot, rubbish, spell
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mumbo jumbo |
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Mumbo Jumbo, abracadabra, absurdity, amorphousness, amphigory, amulet, anagoge, anagogics, anthroposophy, argot, babble, babblement, balderdash, bibble-babble, blabber, blather, bogey, bogeyman,
boggart, bogle, bombast, booger, boogerman, boogeyman, bug,
bugaboo, bugbear, bugger,
cabala, cabalism, cant,
charm, claptrap, conjuration, dark, darkness, double-talk, drivel, drool,
escamotage, esotericism, esoterics, esoterism, esotery, fee-faw-fum, fetish, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, flummery, fog, fogginess, folderol, fudge, fustian, fuzziness, fylfot, gabble, galimatias,
gammadion, gammon, gibber,
gibberish, gibble-gabble, gobbledygook, good-luck charm, hanky-panky, hocus-pocus, hokey-pokey, hoodoo, humbug, incantation, indeterminateness, indistinctness, jabber, jargon, jiggery-pokery, jugglery, juggling, juju, legerdemain, lingo, love charm, lucky bean,
lucky piece, madstone, magic formula, magic words, mascot, mist, mistiness, monkey business, mummery, murk, murkiness, mystery, mysticism, mystification, narrishkeit, niaiserie, nonsense, obeah, obfuscation,
obscurantism, obscuration, obscurity, occultism, opacity, open
sesame, pack of nonsense, palaver, patois, patter, periapt, perplexity, philter, phraseology, phylactery, prate, prattle, prestidigitation, rant, rigamarole,
rigmarole, rodomontade, rubbish, scarab, scarabaeus, scarabee,
scatology, shapelessness, skimble-skamble, slang, sleight of hand, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, sudarium, swastika, symbolics, symbolism, taboo
language, talisman, trash, trickery, trumpery, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, unclarity, unclearness,
unplainness, vagueness, vaporing, vernacular, veronica, vocabulary, voodoo, vulgar language, waffling,
whammy, yoga, yogeeism,
yogism
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Main entries similar to: mumbo-jumbo
absurdity, amulet, argot, babble, balderdash, bete noire, blabber, blather, bogey, bogeyman, bombast, bug, bugbear,
bugger, cabala, cant, charm, claptrap, conjuration, dark, darkness, double-talk, drivel, drool, esoterics, falderal, fetish, fiddle-faddle, flummery, fog, folderol, fudge, fustian, gab, gabble, gammon,
gibber, gibberish, gobbledegook, gobbledygook, hanky-panky,
hocus-pocus, hoodoo, humbug, incantation, jabber, jargon, lingo, lucky
piece, magic, mascot, mist, mumbo jumbo, mummery, murk, mystery, mysticism, mystification, nonsense, obscurity, opacity, open sesame, palaver, patois, patter, perplexity, phraseology, phylactery, prate, prattle, prestidigitation, rant, rigamarole, rigmarole, rodomontade, rubbish, scarab, scatology, slang, sleight of hand, stuff and nonsense, swastika, symbolism, talisman, theosophy, trash, trickery, trumpery, twaddle, vagueness, vernacular, vocabulary, voodoo, vulgar language,
whammy, yoga
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