hocus-pocus

Etymology
The and  are derived from made-up pseudo-Latin magical incantations used by conjurers (formerly called “jugglers”) such as “hocus pocus, tontus talontus, vade celeriter jubeo” (with a particular 17th-century conjurer adopting Hocus Pocus as his name) and “hax pax max Deus adimax”. The suggestion that the term is a corruption of words from the Roman Catholic liturgy of the Eucharist, “hoc est enim corpus meum” (“this is my [i.e., ’s] body”), was made in a sermon by the, (1630–1694), but is not generally accepted.

The is derived from the noun.

Interjection

 * : abracadabra, hey presto.

Translations

 * Belarusian: фо́кус-по́кус
 * Catalan: abracadabra
 * Czech: hokus pokus
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:, ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: abracadabra
 * Japanese: ちちんぷいぷい
 * Kalmyk: илв-җилв
 * Latin: abracadābra
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: abracadabra
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: хо̀кус-по̀кус
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Ukrainian: фо́кус-по́кус

Noun

 * 1)  Some ineffectual action or speech, especially if intended to divert attention; nonsense.
 * 2)  Religious or supernatural phenomena one holds to be nonsense or mere trickery; superstitious mumbo-jumbo.
 * 3)  Some action carried out to bring about change as if by magic; a trick; sleight of hand, trickery.
 * 4)  A conjurer.
 * 5)  A conjurer's trick.
 * 1)  A conjurer.
 * 2)  A conjurer's trick.

Translations

 * Azerbaijani: hoqqa
 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Russian:

Verb

 * 1)  To play tricks or practise sleight of hand (on someone);  to cheat, to deceive.