可能來自拉丁語iynx,歪脖子鳥。這種鳥脖子能180度旋轉，并發出蛇一樣的咝咝聲，在古代用于巫術占卜，下咒，引申詞義霉運，厄運。
Most mysterious of all in the psychics of baseball is the "jinx," that peculiar "hoodoo" which affects, at times, a man, at other times a whole team. Let a man begin to think that there is a "jinx" about, and he is done for for the time being. ["Technical World Magazine," 1911]The verb is 1912 in American English, from the noun. Related: Jinxed; jinxing.
來自柯林斯例句
來自《權威詞典》
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
來自《簡明英漢詞典》