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Meanings of mumbo jumbo in English

Hugger-mugger.

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Examples for "hugger-mugger"
Examples for "hugger-mugger"
1
We have to eat all hugger-mugger with the clerks and carpenters.
Sovereign
2
I don't want to hear any more about corporate hugger-mugger.
The mammoth book of the best of best new sf
3
The various departments are said to be in a state of "hugger-mugger."
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
4
As they thought, hid in hugger-mugger, each accusing the other of being a racist.
Kalooki Nights
5
Nor is the New Yorker a hugger-mugger with his money.
North America — Volume 1
Usage of mumbo jumbo in English
1
Why be a doctor if mumbo jumbo can let you live forever?
The Book of Skulls
2
And you can add whatever mumbo jumbo your people do, too, huh?
Nightwalker
3
And don't pull any of your Babysitter mumbo jumbo, Skellar said.
Afterlife: the resurrection chronicles
4
And typically, what you get is a bunch of mumbo jumbo, he said.
Reuters
5
I've never been good at finding demons and all that League mumbo jumbo.
The spirit rebellion: the legend of eli monpress: book 2
6
And typically, what you get is a bunch of mumbo jumbo, he added.
Reuters
7
I'm a fully paid-up member of the mumbo jumbo generation.
The Irish Times
8
The mumbo jumbo mattered -and that's what made it all the more infuriating.
The Guardian
9
Shay rolled her eyes at the typical demon mumbo jumbo.
Embrace the darkness
10
Nobody appreciates levity when they're in the middle of their traditional mumbo jumbo, I guess.
Changes
11
Sounds like mumbo jumbo, but I guess it happens.
Black house
12
There's no mumbo jumbo about it, in my opinion.
The Grey Room
13
A few candles, some rhyming mumbo jumbo-it'san act.
Book of shadows
14
All that mumbo jumbo stuff about witches and spells.
A taste of magic
15
He accused me of "imprudent extortions", "unjustified demands", numerous "audacities", and " mumbo jumbo".
My Life and My Efforts
16
Taking the oath, a bunch of mumbo jumbo that meant nothing to me, just words.
The passage