bujo

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English

Etymology 1

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Noun

bujo (uncountable)

  1. 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:
      He recalled the one where Gypsies ran a bujo scam, promising to cleanse supposedly cursed money and filching it instead.

Etymology 2

An example of a bujo (etymology 2).

Clipping of Bullet Journal, a registered trademark, so named from the frequent use of bullet points to organize information in them.

Noun

bujo (plural bujos)

  1. (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

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin buxus, of uncertain origin; compare Ancient Greek πύξος (púxos). Doublet of boj, which was borrowed.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbuxo/
  • Rhymes: -uxo
  • Syllabification: bu‧jo

Noun

bujo m (plural bujos)

  1. (Burgos, rare) box (tree), boxwood
    Synonym: boj

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