brujeria
- noun
- /bruˈhɛrɪə/
- UK
:
truco
- It felt like brujeria when the old computer suddenly started working perfectly again.
Examples
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Some people think the chef's recipes are just brujeria because the flavors are so unique.
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Wow! That was some brujeria!
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The engineer's solution was pure brujeria—no one else could have fixed the problem so quickly.
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She performed a little brujeria to impress her friends.
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Learning to juggle well requires a certain level of brujeria that can make it look easy.
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His ability to solve complex problems seemed like pure brujeria to us beginners.
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With a few brujeria tricks, the magician amazed everyone at the party.
Synonyms
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2.7
A performance that looks impossible and surprises people
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8.1
Words or actions that trick people by seeming magical
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4.9
A magic trick that seems to break natural rules to surprise and amuse people
A clever way to do something more easily
Antonyms
How Impressive
Surface Forms
Etymology
A helpful way to remember the informal use of brujeria is to think of Spanish bruja 'witch', because the word is used for a clever trick or skill that looks like 'magic'. That's why people sometimes call an amazing fix or recipe 'brujeria' when it seems too surprising to explain.