资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Mumbo Jumbo \Mum"bo Jum`bo\
   An object of superstitious homage and fear. --Carlyle.

         The miserable Mumbo Jumbo they paraded.  --Dickens.

Mumbo Jumbo \Mum"bo Jum"bo\, n. [Perh. fr. the native name of an
   African god.]
   Among the Mandingos of the western Sudan, a bugbear by means
   of which the women are terrified and disciplined by societies
   of the men, one of whom assumes a masquerade for the purpose;
   hence, loosely, any Negro idol, fetish, or bugaboo.

资料来源 : WordNet®

mumbo jumbo
     n 1: language that is unnecessarily difficult to understand
     2: a state of confusion; ritual accompanied by complicated and
        purposeless activity that obscures and confuses; "he
        engaged in the hugger-mugger of international finance"
        [syn: {hugger-mugger}]