brujx

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noun

A Latinx, especially a Hispanic magic user; a witch.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

nounbrujx (plural brujxs or brujx)

plural brujxs

  1. A Latinx, especially a Hispanic magic user; a witch.

    Some of the brujx in this collective discussed their work with me as part of an Afro- Latinx spiritual activist component of the larger global movement for Black lives. Equally compelling is that brujx are not only activating AfroLatinx and[…]

    2021 August 10, Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas, Mérida M. Rúa, Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies: A Reader, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 529
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    Some of the brujx claimed mishandling a spirit's tether would get you cursed. But Yadriel had never heard of anyone ever actually getting possessed, and he had no intention of disrespecting this tether. […] Before them stood the three brujx who had turned fifteen since the last Día de Muertos. […]

    2020 September 1, Aiden Thomas, Cemetery Boys, Swoon Reads, →ISBN

    ... brujx community. In relating how the brujx came to California, the narrator recounts that “when the first brujx immigrated to Los Angeles, they had only built a small church and graveyard. But as the community expanded, so did the cemetery,[…]" […] a brujx who was chided and made fun of by the nonbrujx children.

    2025 February 17, Trevor Boffone, Cristina Herrera, Atravesados: Essays on Queer Latinx Young Adult Literature, Univ. Press of Mississippi, →ISBN

Origin

A modification of brujo, bruja: The gender-neutral suffix -x replaces the gendered suffixes -a and -o.

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APA

brujx. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/brujx

MLA

“brujx.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/brujx. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “brujx,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/brujx.

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