244. Hoodoo - CPE Vocabulary - U.S. Slang

Hoodoo :  주문, 마술, 불길한 것, 재수없는 것, 징크스, 저주

 

1)

This is very Amerian phrase

it is a type of magic

Either megic healing or control of people

Some spell or magic charm

magic touch or something special that just makes something work

If I add a little bit of my teaching hoodoo to a class then it normally quite successful

I am going to do a little bit of hoodoo and my cake is going to be absolutely fantastic

 

2)

Another meaning of it, to mean bad luck

suffering from hoodoo

a variant of voodoo or black magic

a type of magic, non-Christian magic

We've got to find a way of break this hoodoo

Break this hoodoo

Very amerianEnglish

in British English, jinx, black magic, voodoo 

 

 

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