可能来自拉丁语iynx,歪脖子鸟。这种鸟脖子能180度旋转,并发出蛇一样的咝咝声,在古代用于巫术占卜,下咒,引申词义霉运,厄运。
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.
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