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jinx
English
Etymology
From jynx in the transferred sense “a charm or spell”.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /d???ks/
- Homophone: jynx
- Rhymes: -??ks
Noun
jinx (plural jinxes)
- A hex; an evil spell.
- Synonyms: curse, hoodoo, Indian sign, spell
- A person or thing supposed to bring bad luck.
Derived terms
- reverse jinx
Translations
Verb
jinx (third-person singular simple present jinxes, present participle jinxing, simple past and past participle jinxed)
- (transitive) To cast a spell on.
- (transitive) To bring bad luck to.
- (transitive) To cause something to happen by mentioning it, usually sarcastically.
- 2008, Susane Colasanti, When It Happens, Penguin (?ISBN), chapter 46:
- “So you'll all be near New York!” Maggie says. “We don't know for sure yet.” Sara stresses. “Don't jinx it.”
- 2012, Sally Heinrich, Hungry Ghosts, Hachette UK (?ISBN)
- I've no idea if she guessed what I was intending to do. I don't know why I was so reluctant to talk about it, even to her. Maybe I was afraid that verbalising my intentions would jinx it in some way.
- 2008, Susane Colasanti, When It Happens, Penguin (?ISBN), chapter 46:
Derived terms
- jinxer
Translations
Interjection
jinx
- Used after the same thing is said by two people simultaneously.
- Synonym: snap
Translations
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- jinx on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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jynx
English
Alternative forms
- (adaptations of the Latin nominative singular, iynx) iynx [in the 19th century], jynx [from the 17th century onwards]
- (adaptations of the Latin stem, iyng-) iyng, jyng [both disused after the 17th century]
Etymology
An adaptation of the Latin iynx (“wryneck”), itself an adaptation of the Ancient Greek ???? (íunx, “Eurasian wryneck”, “Jynx torquilla”; figuratively “a spell or charm”, “passionate yearning”), which see for an explanation of the development of its senses.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d????ks/
- Homophone: jinx
- Rhymes: -??ks
Noun
jynx (plural jynges)
- A bird, the wryneck, once thought a bird of ill omen (Jynx torquilla).
- 1649, George Daniel, Trinarchodia: Henry V, line ccxcv:
- Where not a Silver Iyng, or Pigeon, fell To Pay the Markman.
- 1706, John Kersey (editor), Phillips’s New World of Words, “Jynx”:
- Jynx, the Wry-neck, or Emmet-hunter, or as some say, the Wag-tail.
- 1708, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London XXVI, page 123:
- The Jynx or Wryneck…I first heard this year on March 29.
- 1845, The Zoologist: A Miscellany of Natural History III, page 1,107:
- Its sharp and harsh cry, resembling a repetition of Jynx, Jynx, Jynx.
- 1857, Samuel Birch, History of Ancient Pottery (1858), volume I, page 297:
- A youth or females hold a bird, supposed to be the iynx, in their hands.
- 1649, George Daniel, Trinarchodia: Henry V, line ccxcv:
- (transferred sense) A charm or spell.
- Synonym: jinx
- ante 1693, Sir Thomas Urquhart (translator), François Rabelais (author), The Third Book of the Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, chapter i, page 23:
- These are the Philtres, Allurements, Jynges, Inveiglements [les philtres, iynges, et attraictz], Baits, and Enticements of Love.
- The name of an order of spiritual intelligences in ancient “Chaldaic” philosophy.
- 1655, Thomas Stanley, The History of the Chaldaick Philosophy (1701), page 17/2:
- Then is the Intelligible Jynx; next which are the Synoches, the Empyreal, the Ætherial and the Material; after the Synoches are the Teletarchs…Intelligent Jynges do themselves also understand from the Father By unspeakable Counsels being moved so as to understand.
- 1655, Thomas Stanley, The History of the Chaldaick Philosophy (1701), page 17/2:
Derived terms
- jinx
Related terms
- jyngine
Translations
References
- NED V (H–K; 1st ed., 1901), § 3 (J), page 646/3, “Jynx”
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