mumbo-jumbo• You can't do, not when you've been at pains to tell me what rubbish all this astrological mumbo-jumbo is.• legalmumbo-jumbo• Meaninglessmumbo-jumbo designed to stall and delay.• Plotinus wrote his most impassioned tract to attack Gnosticism as pretentiousmumbo-jumbo.• His daughter Amanda sat at his bedside in stiff, pout-lipped profile, reading some piece of religiousmumbo-jumbo.• All of this mumbo-jumbomasks a large vacuum of uncertainty.
Originmumbo-jumbo
(1700-1800)Mumbo Jumbo name of a supposed African god