hoodoo

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: hoo=doo

CIDE DICTIONARY

hoodoo, n. [Perh. a var. of voodoo.].

•  One who causes bad luck.  [1913 Webster]
•  Same as voodoo.  [PJC]
•  Bad luck.  [PJC]

hoodoo, v. t. 

 To be a hoodoo to; to bring bad luck to by occult influence; to bewitch.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

hoodoo, n. 

 A natural rock pile or pinnacle of fantastic shape.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

hoodoo, n. & v. esp. US
--n.
1 a bad luck. b a thing or person that brings or causes this.
2 voodoo.
3 a fantastic rock pinnacle or column of rock formed by erosion etc.
--v.tr. (hoodoos, hoodooed)
1 make unlucky.
2 bewitch.

Etymology

alt. of VOODOO

THESAURUS

hoodoo

Jonah, alchemy, amulet, bad influence, bedevil, bewitch, bewitchery, bring bad luck, charm, curse, demonize, diabolize, divination, enchantment, evil eye, evil genius, evil star, fetish, fetishism, fylfot, gammadion, glamour, good-luck charm, gramarye, hex, ill wind, jinx, juju, jujuism, love charm, lucky bean, lucky piece, madstone, magic, malevolent influence, malocchio, mascot, mumbo jumbo, natural magic, necromancy, obeah, obsess, overlook, periapt, philter, phylactery, possess, rune, scarab, scarabaeus, scarabee, shamanism, sorcery, sortilege, spell, spellbinding, spellcasting, sudarium, swastika, sympathetic magic, talisman, thaumaturgia, thaumaturgics, thaumaturgism, thaumaturgy, theurgy, vampirism, veronica, voodoo, voodooism, wanga, whammy, white magic, witch, witchcraft, witchery, witchwork, wizardry

ROGET THESAURUS

hoodoo

Badness

N badness, hurtfulness, virulence, evil doer, bane, plague spot, evil star, ill wind, hoodoo, Jonah, snake in the grass, skeleton in the closet, amari aliquid, thorn in the side, malignity, malevolence, tender mercies, ill-treatment, annoyance, molestation, abuse, oppression, persecution, outrage, misusage, injury, knockout drops, badness, peccancy, abomination, painfulness, pestilence, guilt, depravity, hurtful, harmful, scathful, baneful, baleful, injurious, deleterious, detrimental, noxious, pernicious, mischievous, full of mischief, mischief-making, malefic, malignant, nocuous, noisome, prejudicial, disserviceable, disadvantageous, wide-wasting, unlucky, sinister, obnoxious, untoward, disastrous, oppressive, burdensome, onerous, malign, corrupting &c (corrupt), virulent, venomous, envenomed, corrosive, poisonous, deadly, destructive, inauspicious, bad, ill, arrant, as bad as bad can be, dreadful, horrid, horrible, dire, rank, peccant, foul, fulsome, rotten, rotten at the core, vile, base, villainous, mean, injured, deteriorated, unsatisfactory, exceptionable indifferent, below par, illcontrived, ill-conditioned, wretched, sad, grievous, deplorable, lamentable, pitiful, pitiable, woeful, evil, wrong, depraved, shocking, reprehensible, hateful, hateful as a toad, abominable, detestable, execrable, cursed, accursed, confounded, damned, damnable, infernal, diabolic, unadvisable, unprofitable, incompetent, irremediable, badly, wrong, ill, to one's cost, where the shoe pinches, bad is the best: the worst come to the worst, herba mala presto cresco, wrongs unredressed or insults unavenged.

Sorcery

N sorcery, occult art, occult sciences, magic, the black art, necromancy, theurgy, thaumaturgy, demonology, demonomy, demonship, diablerie, bedevilment, witchcraft, witchery, glamor, fetishism, fetichism, feticism, ghost dance, hoodoo, obi, obiism, voodoo, voodooism, Shamanism (Esquimaux), vampirism, conjuration, bewitchery, exorcism, enchantment, mysticism, second sight, mesmerism, animal magnetism, od force, odylic force, electrobiology, clairvoyance, spiritualism, spirit rapping, table turning, divination, sortilege, ordeal, sortes Virgilianae, hocus-pocus, magic, magical, mystic, weird, cabalistic, talismanic, phylacteric, incantatory, charmed, Circean, odylic, voodoo.

VB practice sorcery, cast a nativity, conjure, exorcise, charm, enchant, bewitch, bedevil, hoodoo, voodoo, entrance, mesmerize, magnetize, fascinate, taboo, wave a wand, rub the ring, rub the lamp, cast a spell, call up spirits, call up spirits from the vasty deep, raise spirits from the dead.

Sorcerer

N sorcerer, magician, thaumaturgist, theurgist, conjuror, necromancer, seer, wizard, witch, hoodoo, voodoo, fairy, lamia, hag, warlock, charmer, exorcist, mage, cunning man, medicine man, Shaman, figure flinger, ecstatica, medium, clairvoyant, fortune teller, mesmerist, deus ex machina, soothsayer, Katerfelto, Cagliostro, Mesmer, Rosicrucian, Circe, siren, weird sisters.