joj

• JoJ

• IPA^(key): /dʒɒʒ/, /dʒʌʒ/, /-dʒ/, [-ʒ(d̚)]

joj

2. (Internet slang, humorous, nonce word) A nonsense word commonly used in YouTube Poop by playing an audio clip forward and in reverse consecutively; said in reference to this editing style, and to describe palindromes and humorously symmetrized images.

   Synonyms: sus, sos

   • 2019 June 11, Alfred Coleman III with SnapCube 2, “Minecraft w/ PaperBoxHouse #2”, in YouTube‎^[1]:

     You better fuf, and then you better broob, 'cause if you don't broob, you're nothing but a nothing, and then the nothing becomes a nothing, and then your nothing is a joj, and then your nothing is sus […]

   • [2021, Randall Halle, “Cine-Cognition: Collage, Fragmentation, Integration” (chapter 6), in Visual Alterity: Seeing Difference in Cinema, →ISBN, pages 94–95:

     ViV [video in video], lagging or stuttering images to get figures to say nonsense words (“SuS”), became popular. […] What appears as chaos, nonsense, or distortion to someone outside the subculture turns out to be a set of references added on as layers and layers of images. Using rapid forward reverse and word-splice editing to make someone else’s project lag or getting a character to say “SuS” or “JoJ” becomes a form of legible code that has a multiplicity of possible orders.]

   • 2023 January 28, brucebocchi, Tumblr‎^[2]:

     she JOJ on my SOS til i LOL

   • 2023 May 16, efootmobile, Reddit‎^[3]:

     Rules for Dating DaThings: You better get a joj

   • 2023 August 31, yamada-ryo, Tumblr‎^[4]:

     Saw this poster in the wild today and instinctively laughed out loud because like. That’s the Joj. The SoS. From my YTPs.

   • 2024 July 10, theygotlost, Tumblr‎^[5]:

     #the JoJ burger.... with extra Sos

joj (third person feminine singular, nominative case)

1. (Litovska) she

From Proto-Mayan *jooj.

joj

1. heron

• Hull, Kerry (2016) A Dictionary of Ch'orti' Mayan-Spanish-English, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, →ISBN, page 175

Derived from English judge.

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒod͡ʒ/

joj

1. to judge
   • 2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, Matyu 7:1:

     "No joj piipl laik se Gad kyaahn paadn dem, so di siem sitn wi no riich unu.

     "Judge not, that you be not judged

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• joj at majstro.com

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• IPA^(key): /joj/

joj (Cyrillic spelling јој)

1. to her (clitic dative singular of òna (“she”))
2. (emphatic, possessive, dative) her, of hers (clitic dative singular of òna (“she”))

   Gdje joj je auto?

   Where is her car?

Of onomatopoeic origin.

• IPA^(key): /jôːj/

jȏj (Cyrillic spelling јо̑ј)

1. woe! alas!

• “joj”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

From Proto-Mayan *jooj.

joj

1. common raven (Corvus corax)

• Hurley Vda. de Delgaty, Alfa, Ruíz Sánchez, Agustín (1978) Diccionario tzotzil de San Andrés con variaciones dialectales: Tzotzil - español, español - tzotzil (Series de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 22)‎^[6] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: El Instituto Lingüístico de Verano en coordinación con la Secretaría de Educación Pública a través de la Dirección General de Educación a Grupos Marginados, page 66: “joj”
• Laughlin, Robert M. (1975) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán (Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology; 19), City of Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, →DOI, page 156: “hoh”
• Laughlin, Robert M., Haviland, John B. (1988) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of Santo Domingo Zinacantán, with Grammatical Analysis and Historical Commentary (Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology; 31), Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, →DOI, page 211: “joj”

From Proto-Mayan *jooj.

joj (plural jojoʼob)

1. raven, crow