put, fetiş

Turkish - English

Definition of put, fetiş in Turkish English dictionary

mumbo jumbo

Any confusing or meaningless speech; nonsense, gibberish

There were a bunch of foreigners speaking their Mumbo Jumbo clustered ahead of me at Customs.

Any object of superstition; religious words and/or actions which are seen as superstitious or fraudulent

Rev. Quack's healing services are little more than mumbo jumbo.

A deity or other supernatural being said to have been worshipped by certain West African peoples; an idol

Mumbo Jumbo, or mumbojumbo is an English phrase or expression that denotes a confusing or meaningless subject. It is often used as humorous expression of criticism of middle-management and civil service non-speak, and of belief in something considered non-existent by the speaker (ghosts, God, supernatural phenomena, etc.)

1. Unintelligible or incomprehensible language; gibberish.2. Language or ritualistic activity intended to confuse.3. A complicated or obscure ritual.4. An object believed to have supernatural powers; a fetish

language that is unnecessarily difficult to understand

Among the Mandingos of the western Sudan, a bugbear by means of which the women are terrified and disciplined by societies of the men, one of whom assumes a masquerade for the purpose; hence, loosely, any Negro idol, fetish, or bugaboo

An object of superstitious homage and fear

a state of confusion; ritual accompanied by complicated and purposeless activity that obscures and confuses; "he engaged in the hugger-mugger of international finance"

disapproval If you describe ideas or words, especially religious or technical ones, as mumbo jumbo, you mean that they are nonsense. It's all full of psychoanalytic mumbo-jumbo

Hyphenation

put, fe·tiş