Hoodoo vs. Witch — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Hoodoo and Witch
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Hoodoo
Voodoo or witchcraft
A visit to a local hoodoo doctor
Witch
A person, especially a woman, claiming or popularly believed to possess magical powers and practice sorcery.
Hoodoo
A column or pinnacle of weathered rock
A towering sandstone hoodoo
Witch
A believer or follower of Wicca; a Wiccan.
Hoodoo
Bewitch
She's hoodooed you
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Witch
(Offensive) An old woman considered to be ugly or frightening.
Hoodoo
Magic healing and control, especially in African-based folk medicine in the United States and the Caribbean.Also called conjure.
Witch
A woman considered to be spiteful or overbearing.
Hoodoo
A practitioner of hoodoo.
Witch
(Informal) A woman or girl considered to be charming or fascinating.
Hoodoo
Voodoo.
Witch
One particularly skilled or competent at one's craft
"A witch of a writer, [she] is capable of developing an intensity that verges on ferocity" (Peter S. Prescott).
Hoodoo
Bad luck.
Witch
To work or cast a spell on; bewitch.
Hoodoo
One that brings bad luck.
Witch
To cause, bring, or effect by witchcraft.
Hoodoo
(Geology)A column of eccentrically shaped rock, produced by differential weathering.
Witch
To use a divining rod to find underground water or minerals; dowse.
Hoodoo
To practice hoodoo on; affect with a charm or curse.
Witch
A person who practices witchcraft.
Hoodoo
To bring bad luck to.
Witch
(now usually particularly) A woman who is learned in and actively practices witchcraft.
Hoodoo
(uncountable) A set of spiritual practices and traditions created and concealed from slave-owners by enslaved Africans in North America, based on traditional African beliefs.
Witch
An ugly or unpleasant woman.
I hate that old witch.
Hoodoo
A practitioner of voodoo.
Witch
One who exercises more-than-common power of attraction; a charming or bewitching person.
Hoodoo
Supernatural bad luck, or something or someone believed to bring bad luck.
Witch
One given to mischief, especially a woman or child.
Hoodoo
(geology) A tall thin spire of rock that protrudes from the bottom of arid basins and badlands.
Witch
(geometry) A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera.
Hoodoo
(transitive) To jinx; to bring bad luck or misfortune to.
Witch
The storm petrel.
Hoodoo
One who causes bad luck.
Witch
Any of a number of flatfish:
Hoodoo
Same as voodoo.
Witch
Glyptocephalus cynoglossus (Torbay sole), found in the North Atlantic.
Hoodoo
Bad luck.
Witch
Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis (megrim), found in the North Atlantic.
Hoodoo
A natural rock pile or pinnacle of fantastic shape.
Witch
Arnoglossus scapha, found near New Zealand.
Hoodoo
To be a hoodoo to; to bring bad luck to by occult influence; to bewitch.
Witch
The Indomalayan butterfly Araotes lapithis, of the family Lycaenidae.
Hoodoo
A column of weathered and eccentrically shaped rock;
A tall sandstone hoodoo
Witch
A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat and used as a taper.
Hoodoo
A practitioner of voodoo
Witch
(intransitive) To dowse for water.
Hoodoo
A charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers
Witch
To practise witchcraft.
Hoodoo
Something believed to bring bad luck
Witch
(transitive) To bewitch.
Hoodoo
Bring back luck; be a source of misfortune
Witch
A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat, and used as a taper.
Witch
One who practices the black art, or magic; one regarded as possessing supernatural or magical power by compact with an evil spirit, esp. with the Devil; a sorcerer or sorceress; - now applied chiefly or only to women, but formerly used of men as well.
There was a man in that city whose name was Simon, a witch.
He can not abide the old woman of Brentford; he swears she's a witch.
Witch
An ugly old woman; a hag.
Witch
One who exercises more than common power of attraction; a charming or bewitching person; also, one given to mischief; - said especially of a woman or child.
Witch
A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera.
Witch
The stormy petrel.
Witch
A Wiccan; an adherent or practitioner of Wicca, a religion which in different forms may be paganistic and nature-oriented, or ditheistic. The term witch applies to both male and female adherents in this sense.
Witch
To bewitch; to fascinate; to enchant.
[I 'll] witch sweet ladies with my words and looks.
Whether within us or withoutThe spell of this illusion beThat witches us to hear and see.
Witch
A female sorcerer or magician
Witch
A being (usually female) imagined to have special powers derived from the devil
Witch
An ugly evil-looking old woman
Witch
Cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something
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