hoodoo

1. 1.

   bring bad luck; be a source of misfortune

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Other forms of hoodoo

plural

hoodoos·

past tense

hoodooed·

present participle

hoodooing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hoodoo

What does hoodoo mean?

hoodoo means "(geology) a column of weathered and unusually shaped rock". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hoodoo?

hoodoo has 2 syllables: hoo-doo. The stress falls on "hoo".

What is another word for hoodoo?

Close synonyms include juju, voodoo, fetish, fetich. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hoodoo a common word?

hoodoo is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.