What's the difference between hoodoo and jinx?

Hoodoo


Definition:

  • (n.) One who causes bad luck.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But Murray found new reserves of strength to take the fifth and lay a 76-year hoodoo to rest.
  • (2) Keep your bearings – the visitor centre is easy to spot from any vantage – and let yourself get lost between the hoodoos.
  • (3) North End, aiming to end an eight-game play-off hoodoo, had been poor, but Garner ensured they will head to South Yorkshire next Thursday on level terms.
  • (4) Here thousands of mushroom-shaped hoodoos sit clustered in a secluded valley on the edge of the spectacular San Rafael Swell.
  • (5) The white cliffs, hoodoos and slot canyon are all made of of volcanic tuff that erupted around a million years ago.
  • (6) Yet a lot of teams have buried a hoodoo at Old Trafford over the last couple of seasons.
  • (7) 7.44pm GMT Kick off coming up soon... Can SKC break their Houston hoodoo?
  • (8) Andy Murray has capped a year in which he broke a 77-year Wimbledon hoodoo and played his way into the hearts of the nation by winning the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year award.
  • (9) The first half of the three-mile trail winds through a slot canyon so narrow you can touch the walls on both sides, then the canyon opens up beneath the 100ft conical hoodoos that give this national monument its name, before switchbacking up to the top of the mesa for a sweeping overlook of the Jemez mountains and the Rio Grande River Valley.
  • (10) It's now a hoodoo, voodoo, ghost, curse, rally monkey, wear-your-cap-inside-out situation 9.31pm BST Giants 6, Reds 3 Top 9th Xavier Nady in to pinch hit for the Giants.
  • (11) Paul Lambert brought up an unwanted half-century in charge of Aston Villa as Hull City overcame their own hoodoo against their relegation rivals to plunge them into the bottom three .
  • (12) Don't get me wrong, Rodgers is one of the best QB's around and has a bit of a hoodoo over Da Bears, but it's forecast to be a cold and windy evening in Chicago that will probably suit the running game best.
  • (13) Ukraine’s hopes of finally ending their play-off hoodoo and qualifying for Euro 2016 were given a huge boost with a 2-0 first-leg victory over Slovenia in Lviv.
  • (14) The images, which are deeply layered and particular to a black Southern vernacular and aesthetic, beg to be catalogued: Creole and Black American, Mardi Gras Indian, crawfish, Black cowboys, wig shops, socks and slippers, corsets and parasols, parades, high school basketball, step team moves, bounce queens Big Freedia and Messy Mya, cotillions, “twirl on dem haters”, braids, “bama”, black spirituality (church and hoodoo, maybe even a nod to Mami Wata), black mama side eyes, drawls, Blue Ivy black girl magic fierceness.
  • (15) Seasoned hikers can head to the Valley of the 1,000 Devils , with its hoodoo rock formations and dinosaur fossils.

Jinx


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It took us 35 hours to get to London because of delays, so I think we’re jinxed,” said Jillian Masselos, who is pregnant.
  • (2) "Very serious allegations have been made and this is no run-of-the-mill, high jinx affair," he said this afternoon.
  • (3) 4.21am BST Red Sox 8 - Cardinals 1, top of 9th May Low (@TeamMassMayhem) @NotCoachTito @LengelDavid YOU JINXED IT!
  • (4) "Do I switch the lights on and risk jinxing the Reds?
  • (5) I'm not saying this was a jinx or anything, I'm just saying.
  • (6) Imagine the high-jinx when a man who likes meatballs has to eat, um, cod.
  • (7) Over the course of a jinxed shoot and a mixed critical reception he discovered that being King of the World was not all it was cracked up to be.
  • (8) Ah now, it'd be unfair for me to try to jinx one team over the other.
  • (9) I’m sitting in a windowless room with two gigantic pictures of [The Jinx’s villain] Robert Durst on the wall,” he explains on the phone from New York.
  • (10) Although given that my only other bet was on England beating Algeria 5-1, I think I've probably jinxed them."
  • (11) She chose her university, in part, because of its strong reputation for sport and Rosenfeld names the tennis star Martina Navratilova as an inspiration, although an injury jinxed her own hopes of competing at a top level.
  • (12) But the crowd are prepared to wait... 10.09pm BST I don't normally publish emails like this, but we've had a lot of them in the past week I'm banned by my highly superstitious family from watching live coverage of the Olympics because I jinx Team GB," says Claire Robins.
  • (13) "After such a victorious and uplifting welcome of Lima love, the contaminated jinx had its way via a simple restaurant meal of penne pasta and tomato," he wrote.
  • (14) But the resurgence would never be complete, the jinx not entirely broken, until they had defeated their rivals.
  • (15) When the San Francisco 49ers seemed to respond to the power outage by starting to play like they could actually steal the game away from the Baltimore Ravens, we wanted to give a certain amount of credit to the lights, call it momentum or a jinx or whatever.
  • (16) Fielding says the new book is about "a whole new idea for a phase of her life that I can't jinx by describing it".
  • (17) 1.53am GMT Kansas City here we come Of course in the other game last night, Sporting KC finally overcame their Houston Dynamo jinx to not just get to the MLS Cup final but to ensure that they'll be hosting it (having been to a great All Star Week there, I can tell you they'll do a great job too).
  • (18) They've been rather spoiled this week after lifting that home elimination game jinx.
  • (19) Lucy Beaumont: 'I'm paying three times the price for what looks like Elton John's outhouse' Lucy Beaumont I'm jinxed with accommodation in Edinburgh.
  • (20) Updated at 7.28pm GMT 7.23pm GMT 90 min +5: “Okay, with three minutes to go I think I’m just about ready to put my Niall Mullen voodoo doll away after his fate enticing attempt to jinx things at half time,” writes Phil Sawyer.

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