Jonah

noun

Definition of Jonahnext
as in evil eye

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  1. curse
  2. pox
  3. voodoo
Noun
  • The Hollywood Reporter caught up with the affable Williams and Knight — whose The Real Brady Bros podcast relives every episode — to talk Brady Bunch auditions, Ann B. Davis’ comic timing and those pesky Hawaiian curses.
    Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Several generations of the Buendía lineage will mark the future of this mythical town, tormented by madness, impossible loves, a bloody and absurd war, and the fear of a terrible curse that condemns them, without hope, to one hundred years of solitude.
    Dana Feldman, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
Definition of curse
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  • Witnesses recall seeing sufferers with so many pox on their faces that their features were no longer identifiable.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Importing live animals from Greece was banned after a separate disease – goat pox – was detected last October.
    Harriet Marsden, The Week UK, theweek, 7 Aug. 2024
Definition of pox
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  • Only, this serial killer was forced to possess a Good Guy Doll by way of voodoo after an intense shootout opening scene.
    Meagan Navarro, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
  • In real life, Laveau was a herbalist, midwife, and Voodoo practitioner in New Orleans, and Tituba was an enslaved Native American woman (not a Black voodoo practitioner as she is often wrongfully depicted).
    Ivana Rihter, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2024
Definition of voodoo
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