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(nautical, slang) A person who brings a ship bad luck. / (slang, by extension) Any person or object which is deemed to cause bad luck; a jinx.

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Jonah

noun

Jonah was a sailor on a fishing boat.

意味（1）

(nautical, slang) A person who brings a ship bad luck.

Superstitious sailors regarded a clergyman as an unlucky shipmate, a Jonah whose presence would never be welcome.

意味（2）

(slang, by extension) Any person or object which is deemed to cause bad luck; a jinx.

‘My first agent, and he's dead. It's incredible. I feel like a complete Jonah.’