Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bujo

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.39 in modern English

Syllables: bu-jo
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

2

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Uncountable

noun

A bullet journal, a type of structured, aesthetically-oriented journal or planner.

Informal

Example Sentences

"He recalled the one where Gypsies ran a bujo scam, promising to cleanse supposedly cursed money and filching it instead."
"My bujo is full of doodles, pencil-colored drawings, washi tape and post it notes."
"On a rather ordinary Thursday morning I settled into my office in O'Connor House — pushing aside towering book stacks and reaching for my bujo (bullet journal) — when I heard a shrieking yowl down the hall."
"[…] in my opinion, this free desktop app is an apt substitute for even the most bujo-crazed stationery fanatics."

Etymology

Clipping of Bullet Journal, a registered trademark, so named from the frequent use of bullet points to organize information in them.

Usage

Inflected Forms

bujos (plural)

Questions

What does bujo mean?: 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.
Where does bujo come from?: Clipping of Bullet Journal, a registered trademark, so named from the frequent use of bullet points to organize information in them.

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