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joss

noun
/dʒɒs/UK/dʒɔs/US/dʒɑs/

Etymology

From Chinese Pidgin English joss, from Macau Pidgin Portuguese, from Portuguese deus (“god”), from Latin deus (“god”), from Proto-Indo-European *deywós (“god/that which belongs to heaven”).

  1. derived from *deywós✻
  2. derived from deus
  3. derived from deus
  4. borrowed from joss

Definitions

  1. A Chinese household divinity

    A Chinese household divinity; a Chinese idol.

  2. A heathen divinity.

  3. Luck.

    • She had twisted a piece of heather into her mail box for good joss, and this was the safety signal.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. A unisex given name

    2. A surname.

    3. To invalidate a fan theory or original element of a fanwork through the introduction of…

      To invalidate a fan theory or original element of a fanwork through the introduction of new canon or retconning.

      • Author's note part 2: I'm leaving it to the imagination of the reader what Cordelia saw of her future. Writing that out would be asking to be Jossed.

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Derived

joss stick, joss paper, joss house, Jossverse

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for joss. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA