Ouija board
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8.2
- noun
- /ˈwiːdʒə bɔrd/
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tabla Ouija
- At the sleepover, the girls decided to communicate with ghosts using a Ouija board.
- get a Ouija board
- play the Ouija board
- use a Ouija board
And I said to the girl, I said, did you use a Ouija board?
- And I said to the girl, I said, did you use a Ouija board?
- Have I tried to call Ronnie Grey back with Ouija board?
- But we didn't have a Ouija board, so we drew one on the back of the cereal box.
- So they had played with a Ouija board, thought they got a presence identified with the ghost name.
- OK, It the table is like the shape of a Ouija board.
- Pentagrams, upside down, crucifixes, The the Ouija board is everywhere.
- And they were like, yeah, anyways, with my family doing the startup, doing the Ouija board, and the fire alarm goes off.
- But like you'll see like the the seances, the like the anarchy type shit, the Ouija board stuff, the exercise.
Examples
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Do we have a Ouija board for communicating with the dead?
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Her hand, poised on the plastic planchette, dashes in and out of the Ouija board alphabet.
Fiction book (1997) -
What if we just get this Ouija board, right?
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Would you rather I use a Ouija board?
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I lost my Ouija board.
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Linda said, "Do you believe what the Ouija board said?"
Fiction book (2001) -
During the following Ouija board scene, the "spirit" guided the students to spell the name Jane.
Blog text (16) -
So people will be playing their Ouija board and thinking that they're talking to a spirit or, you know, a little boy.
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The next day, Viola brought the Ouija board out and set it on the card table.
Fiction book (2002) -
I've used Ouija boards all of my life, so I guess I know how to use one.
Fiction book (1995)
Synonyms
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9.9
A board with letters that people use to try to talk to the dead
Surface Forms
Morphology
If a learner already knows 'Ouija' as a device used to communicate with spirits and 'board' as a flat surface, the combined phrase 'Ouija board' is directly and literally compositional — a board used for spirit communication. The meaning is therefore immediately derivable from the constituents (not idiomatic), though in practice the proper-name 'Ouija' itself may be unknown to many learners.
Etymology
Ouija board: one popular story says the name Ouija comes from joining the words 'oui' and 'ja' (both mean 'yes'), so the board was seen as a tool that could give a 'yes' or 'no' answer. That's why people use the board to try to 'communicate with spirits'.