Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA voodoo practitioner who deals with malefic as well as beneficial effects; a sorcerer.
From Haitian Creole bòkò, from Fon bókɔ́nɔ̀ (“soothsayer”).
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