joso

• 'joso, josoh, josoma, josomuh

From Mende (Sierra Leone) njoso ("spirit").

• IPA^(key): /ɟo.so/, /ɟo.so.mʌ/, /d͡ʒo.so/, /d͡ʒo.sʊ.mə/

joso

1. (religion) witchcraft
2. charm

• Lorenzo Dow Turner, Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect (1969)

Corruption of oso, inherited from Latin ursus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxoso/ [ˈxo.so]
• Rhymes: -oso
• Syllabification: jo‧so

joso m (plural josos, feminine josa, feminine plural josas)

1. (New Mexico) alternative form of oso (“bear”)
   • 2004 January 16, Nasario García, Tiempos Lejanos: Poetic Images from the Past (overall work in English and Spanish), Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 50:

     —Ahi viene Sinforoso, el joso, ojos verdes, cara de rabia.

     “There comes Sinforoso, the bear with green eyes and a face of fury.”

• Hills, E. C. (1906), “puela”, in “New-Mexican Spanish”, in Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, volume XXI, number 3 (overall work in English), Modern Language Association of America, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 747
• Kercheville, F. M.; McSpadden, George E. (1934), “joso”, in A Preliminary Glossary of New Mexican Spanish (overall work in English), Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →OCLC, page 36
• Cobos, Rubén (1983), “joso”, in A Dictionary of New Mexico and Southern Colorado Spanish, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 93