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Bubo vs Bujo - What's the difference?

bubo | bujo |

As nouns the difference between bubo and bujo

is that bubo is an inflamed swelling of a lymph node, especially in the armpit or the groin, due to an infection such as bubonic plague, gonorrhea, tuberculosis or syphilis while bujo is 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.

bubo

English

(wikipedia bubo)

Noun

(es)
  • (pathology) An inflamed swelling of a lymph node, especially in the armpit or the groin, due to an infection such as bubonic plague, gonorrhea, tuberculosis or syphilis.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1661
    • , author=Johann Jacob Wecker , title=Eighteen books of the secrets of art and nature: being the summe and substance of naturall philisophy ... , page=42 citation , passage=If a Bubo or Carbuncle appear, set on Leeches not far from it, if it be in an ignoble part; ...}}

    Derived terms

    * bubonic

    bujo

    English

    Noun

    (-) (wikipedia bujo)
  • 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.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=June 7, author=Jon Pareles, title=He Still Loves New Orleans, and Now He’s Mad, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=He recalled the one where Gypsies ran a bujo scam, promising to cleanse supposedly cursed money and filching it instead. }}