Nigeria vs Juju - What's the difference?
nigeria | juju |
Country in Western Africa, south of the country of Niger. Official name: Federal Republic of Nigeria.
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.
A type of music popular in Nigeria. (See )
(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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nigeria
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* Abuja * ----juju
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* ju-juEtymology 1
From a West African language, probably originally from (etyl) joujou.Noun
(en noun)- That's some bad juju .