bujo
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun[edit]
bujo (uncountable)
- 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.
- 2008 June 7, Jon Pareles, “He Still Loves New Orleans, and Now He’s Mad”, in New York Times[1]:
- He recalled the one where Gypsies ran a bujo scam, promising to cleanse supposedly cursed money and filching it instead.
Etymology 2[edit]
Clipping of Bullet Journal, a registered trademark, so named from the frequent use of bullet points to organize information in them.
Noun[edit]
bujo (plural bujos)
- (informal) A bullet journal, a type of structured, aesthetically-oriented journal or planner.
- 2017 September, Jackie Loudin, “Bullet Journaling: It's Just My Style”, in Around Canton, page 38:
- My bujo is full of doodles, pencil-colored drawings, washi tape and post it notes.
- 2019 April 18, Krista Dalton, “Moxie may be 'banned' from O'Conner, but only out of love”, in The Kenyon Collegian, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH, page 10:
- 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.
- 2020 December 17, Angelina Zahajko, “I Reviewed the Internet's Best Study Apps, So You Don't Have to”, in The Innis Herald, Innis College, Toronto, ON, page 5:
- […] in my opinion, this free desktop app is an apt substitute for even the most bujo-crazed stationery fanatics.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:bujo.
See also[edit]
- Bullet journal on Wikipedia.Wikipedia