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| dyb·buk [ díbbək ] (plural dyb·buks or dyb·buk·im [ díbbəkim ]) |
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spirit believed to enter living body: in Jewish folklore, a malevolent spirit of a dead person, believed able to take over a living person's body and control his or her behavior unless exorcised
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| [Early 20th century. Via Yiddish dibek< Hebrew dibbūq< dāḇaq "cling"] |
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