Jonah

noun

Definition of Jonahnext
as in evil eye

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  1. curse
  2. pox
  3. voodoo
Noun
  • There has never been a busier time or more information available than right now, which is both a blessing and a curse.
    Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel, 1 Jan. 2025
  • The delivery app market — dominated by DoorDash, UberEats and Grubhub — seems to be a blessing and a curse for restaurant operators.
    Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024
Definition of curse
Noun
  • Witnesses recall seeing sufferers with so many pox on their faces that their features were no longer identifiable.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Importing live animals from Greece was banned after a separate disease – goat pox – was detected last October.
    Harriet Marsden, The Week UK, theweek, 7 Aug. 2024
Definition of pox
Noun
  • Just last week, a gang leader ordered the slaughter of more than 200 people in one of Port-au-Prince’s poorest neighborhoods in an attack that targeted voodoo priests.
    Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 15 Dec. 2024
  • The origin story centers on Kraven's upbringing under a ruthless crime lord dad (Russell Crowe) and journey to become the world's greatest hunter, with Ariana DeBose as voodoo priestess Calypso and Alessandro Nivola as villainous Rhino.
    KiMi Robinson, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of voodoo
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