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[salsabike]

Mimitabby is now Biciclista--she's fine and she's right here.

"Funk" also means being kind of depressed. "I was in a real funk from the short dark days in winter until Veronica sent me some of her peanut butter cookies."

"Mojo" means a number of different things. The most general use is your personal sense of power, as in "I've got my mojo back now that I've gotten rid of that virus, or that bad relationship, or whatever was dragging me down." See below from dictionary.com--

mojo - 5 dictionary results
Main Entry: mojo
Part of Speech: n
Definition: a Cuban seasoning of garlic, olive oil, and sour (Seville) oranges used as a dip, marinade, or sauce
Etymology: Span. mojar 'make wet'
Usage: cooking

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mo⋅jo
   /ˈmoʊdʒoʊ/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [moh-joh] Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun, plural -jos, -joes.
1. the art or practice of casting magic spells; magic; voodoo.
2. an object, as an amulet or charm, that is believed to carry a magic spell.
Origin:
1925–30, Americanism; cf. Gullah moco witchcraft, magic, prob. akin to Fulani moco'o medicine man (c represents voiced palatal stop)
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mo·jo (mō'jō') Pronunciation Key
n. pl. mo·jos or mo·joes

1. A magic charm or spell.
2. An amulet, often a small flannel bag containing one or more magic items, worn by adherents of hoodoo or voodoo.
3. Personal magnetism; charm.


[Perhaps ultimately from Fula moco'o, medicine man.]
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mojo
1920s, probably of Creole origin, cf. Gullah moco "witchcraft," Fula moco'o "medicine man."

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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mojo

noun
a magic power or magic spell

[Veronica]

"Funk" also means being kind of depressed. "I was in a real funk from the short dark days in winter until Veronica sent me some of her peanut butter cookies."

My recipe is on line here somewhere.

Veronica

[Irulan]

funk - grossness, stinky, as in "gym shoes funk".

or, shoddy with character, "funky little cabin"

mojo - like a good luck charm, esp with mountain bikers, you put your mojo on your bike ( and there's all sorts of rules like you can't buy your own mojo)

anyone checked urban dictionary yet?

[OakLeaf]

Oh goodness, who hasn't hooted and hollered with a band playing "Got my mojo working?"


Edit after reading the rest of that wiki... Conway Twitty???! That's just plain scary.