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| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : jingks |
| Phonetic Transcription : dʒɪŋks |
Definition of jinxed
Origin :- 1911, American English, originally baseball slang; perhaps ultimately from jyng "a charm, a spell" (17c.), originally "wryneck," a bird used in witchcraft and divination, from Latin iynx "wryneck," from Greek iynx.
- Most mysterious of all in the psychics of baseball is the "jinx," that peculiar "hoodoo" which affects, at times, a man, at other times a whole team. Let a man begin to think that there is a "jinx" about, and he is done for for the time being. ["Technical World Magazine," 1911]
- The verb is 1912 in American English, from the noun. Related: Jinxed; jinxing.
- verb curse
- There was not a man in the Academy who would set foot inside the "jinxed" ship.
- Extract from : « Sabotage in Space » by Carey Rockwell
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