# joj
## English
### Alternative forms

* JoJ

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dʒɒʒ/, /dʒʌʒ/, /-dʒ/, [-ʒ(d̚)]

### Interjection

joj
* (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, “Minecraft w/ PaperBoxHouse #2”, in YouTube‎: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:she JOJ on my SOS til i LOL
** 2023 May 16, efootmobile, Reddit‎:Rules for Dating DaThings: You better get a joj
** 2023 August 31, yamada-ryo, Tumblr‎: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:#the JoJ burger.... with extra Sos

## Baltic Romani
### Pronoun

joj (third person feminine singular, nominative case)
* (Litovska) she

#### Declension

* ↑ The ablative is in decline in Lithuanian Romani

## Jamaican Creole
### Etymology

Derived from English judge.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /d͡ʒod͡ʒ/

### Verb

joj
* 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.

### Further reading

* joj at majstro.com

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /joj/

#### Pronoun

joj (Cyrillic spelling јој)
* to her (clitic dative singular of òna (“she”))
* (emphatic, possessive, dative) her, of hers (clitic dative singular of òna (“she”))
    Gdje joj je auto?Where is her car?

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

Of onomatopoeic origin.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /jôːj/

#### Interjection

jȏj (Cyrillic spelling јо̑ј)
* woe! alas!

### References

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

## Tzotzil
### Etymology

From Proto-Mayan *jooj.

### Noun

joj
* common raven (Corvus corax)

### References

* 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)‎ (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”

## Yucatec Maya
### Etymology

From Proto-Mayan *jooj.

### Noun

joj (plural jojoʼob)
* raven, crow