witchy-poo
n.— «”People don’t understand what I do, and I have been trying to debunk the typical witchy-poo stuff from the beginning,” said Lady Sintana, a former burlesque dancer and the granddaughter of a Baptist minister. “I don’t call what I have at my house a church; it’s more like a coven.”
» —“Witch denied use of home as church” by Shelley Emling Atlanta Constitution Aug. 12, 1993. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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