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Victim vs Bujo - What's the difference?

victim | bujo |

As nouns the difference between victim and bujo

is that victim is original sense A living creature which is slain and offered as human or animal sacrifice, usually in a religious rite; by extension, the transfigurated body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist 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.

victim

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (original sense) A living creature which is slain and offered as human or animal sacrifice, usually in a religious rite; by extension, the transfigurated body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist.
  • Anyone who is harmed by another.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
    • , title= , chapter=1 citation , passage=“There the cause of death was soon ascertained?; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which […] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom. […]”}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Obama goes troll-hunting , passage=According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.}}
  • An aggrieved or disadvantaged party in a crime (e.g. swindle.)
  • A person who suffers any other injury, loss, or damage as a result of a voluntary undertaking.
  • An unfortunate person who suffers from a disaster or other adverse circumstance.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
    • , chapter=6, tritle= The Younger Set , passage=“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=28, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= High and wet , passage=Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale.
  • (label) A character who is conquered or manipulated by a villain.

    • 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. }}