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Cigarette vs Juju - What's the difference?

cigarette | juju |

As nouns the difference between cigarette and juju

is that cigarette is tobacco, marijuana, or other substances, in a thin roll wrapped with paper, intended to be smoked while juju is a fetish or charm believed by West Africans to have magical or supernatural powers.

cigarette

English

Alternative forms

* cigaret

Noun

(en noun)
  • Tobacco, marijuana, or other substances, in a thin roll wrapped with paper, intended to be smoked.
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    • Synonyms

    * cancerette * cancer stick * cig * ciggy * rig (Canada) * stick (Canada) * coffin nail * darb, durry (Sydney, Australia) * dart, durben, smoke, rolly (Australia) * death stick * fag (UK) * gaf (butcher’s slang) * neen (Sydney Australian larrikins) * * tab * smoke (US) * square (US-slang) *zig-zag (US-slang) * See also

    See also

    * cigar * cigarillo * nonmailable * smoke ----

    juju

    English

    Alternative forms

    * ju-ju

    Etymology 1

    From a West African language, probably originally from (etyl) joujou.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fetish or charm believed by West Africans to have magical or supernatural powers.
  • The magical or supernatural power of such a charm.
  • A superstitious belief in the karmic consequences of an action or behavior, usually negative in connotation.
    • That's some bad juju .
  • A type of music popular in Nigeria. (See )
    • Derived terms
    * jujuism

    Etymology 2

    Reduplication of -ju- in (marijuana).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) A marijuana cigarette; a joint.
  • * 1940 , (Raymond Chandler), Farewell, My Lovely , Penguin 2010, p. 75:
  • *:‘I knew a guy once who smoked jujus ,’ she said. ‘Three highballs and three sticks of tea and it took a pipe wrench to get him off the chandelier.’
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