jadoo
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[edit]From Hindustani जादू / جادو (jādū), from Classical Persian جَادُو (jādū).
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[edit]jadoo (uncountable)
- (North India, Pakistan) Magic, sorcery.
- 2005 [1888], Rudyard Kipling, “In the House of Suddhoo”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio, page 99:
- Then, to encourage him further, I said that, if there was any jadoo afoot, I had not the least objection to giving it my countenance and sanction
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