# What is a mojo? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [February 23, 2001, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-mojo/55596 "2001-02-23T14:25:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![maribert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@maribert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maribert)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2001, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-mojo/55596/1 "2001-02-23T14:25:54Z")
There is a completely different aspect to a “mojo.” “Mojo” derives from the Spanish word “mojar” (to dunk) and means a sauce in which to dunk food. Especially famous is “mojo picón” from the Canary Islands, a hot spicy sauce typically served with fish and small jacket potatoes (“papas arru- gadas”). ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2001, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-mojo/55596/2 "2001-02-23T14:56:45Z")
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**Author:** ![Spookythecat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@Spookythecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spookythecat)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2001, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-mojo/55596/3 "2001-02-24T09:04:14Z")
Hmmmm… I got My Dunkin’ Sauce Workin’, but it just don’t work on you? I’m never gonna be able to listen to that song again without picturing Chicken McNuggets… ---
**Author:** ![Keko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a8b319/32.png) [@Keko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keko)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2001, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-mojo/55596/4 "2001-02-25T06:16:28Z")
Mojo? Isn’t he that monkey on the Power Puff girls? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2001, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-mojo/55596/5 "2001-03-17T22:02:43Z")
I always though it was self-explanatory: A ‘mojo’ is a person’s sex drive. ---
**Author:** ![mojo\_filter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@mojo\_filter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mojo_filter)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2001, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-mojo/55596/6 "2001-03-19T03:05:44Z")
Mojo Jojo is the Powerpuff Girls’ greatest enemy. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2001, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-mojo/55596/7 "2001-03-19T04:15:35Z")
Where is **Jomo Mojo** when you need him. He climbed all over my _mojo_ when we were discussing coffee. Surely he knows the Canary Island etymological derivation of dipping sauce. 😉