bujo
English
Etymology 1
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Noun
bujo (uncountable)
- 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.
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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)
- (informal) A bullet journal, a type of structured, aesthetically-oriented journal or planner.
- 2017, Jackie Loudin, "Bullet Journaling: It's Just My Style", Around Canton, September 2017, page 38:
- My bujo is full of doodles, pencil-colored drawings, washi tape and post it notes.
- 2019, Krista Dalton, "Moxie may be 'banned' from O'Conner, but only out of love", The Kenyon Collegian (Kenyon College, Gambier, OH), 18 April 2019, 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, Angelina Zahajko, "I Reviewed the Internet's Best Study Apps, So You Don't Have to", The Innis Herald (Innis College, Toronto, ON), 17 December 2020, 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.
- 2017, Jackie Loudin, "Bullet Journaling: It's Just My Style", Around Canton, September 2017, page 38:
See also
- Bullet journal on Wikipedia.Wikipedia