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bujo

bujo noun: a confidence trick in which the victim is falsely diagnosed with a curse or other ailment that can supposedly only be cured by the trickster.

Noun (1)

bujo (uncountable)

  1. A confidence trick in which the victim is falsely diagnosed with a curse or other ailment that can supposedly only be cured by the trickster.
    • He recalled the one where Gypsies ran a bujo scam, promising to cleanse supposedly cursed money and filching it instead.2008 June 7, Jon Pareles, “He Still Loves New Orleans, and Now He’s Mad”, in New York Times

Noun (2)

bujo (plural bujos)

  1. (informal) A bullet journal, a type of structured, aesthetically-oriented journal or planner.
    • My bujo is full of doodles, pencil-colored drawings, washi tape and post it notes.2017 September, Jackie Loudin, “Bullet Journaling: It's Just My Style”, in Around Canton, page 38
    • On a rather ordinary Thursday morning I settled into my office in O'Connor House — pushing aside towering book stacks and reaching for my bujo (bullet journal) — when I heard a shrieking yowl down the hall.2019 April 18, Krista Dalton, “Moxie may be 'banned' from O'Conner, but only out of love”, in The Kenyon Collegian, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH, page 10

Forms of bujo

pluralbujos

Origin of bujo

Clipping of Bullet Journal, a registered trademark, so named from the frequent use of bullet points to organize information in them.

Questions about bujo

What does bujo mean?
Bujo means a confidence trick in which the victim is falsely diagnosed with a curse or other ailment that can supposedly only be cured by the trickster.
What part of speech is bujo?
Bujo is a noun.
What is the plural of bujo?
The plural of bujo is bujos.

Words near bujo in the dictionary

  1. Bujalski
  2. Bujalskis
  3. Bujan
  4. Buje
  5. bujj
  6. bujo
  7. Bujoreni
  8. bujos
  9. Bujumbura
  10. Bujumburan
  11. Bujumburans

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