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dyb⋅buk

  [Seph. Heb. Heb. dee-book; Ashk. Heb., Eng. dib-uhk]
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–noun, plural dyb⋅buks, dyb⋅bu⋅kim  [Seph. Heb. dee-boo-keem; Ashk. Heb. di-book-im] . Jewish Folklore.
a demon, or the soul of a dead person, that enters the body of a living person and directs the person's conduct, exorcism being possible only by a religious ceremony.
Also, dibbuk.

Origin:
1900–05; < Yiddish dibek < Heb dibbūq, deriv. of dābhaq cleave (to); sp. dybbuk is a Pol transliteration of the Heb word
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dyb·buk   (dĭb'ŏŏk, dē-bōōk')   
n.   pl. dyb·buks or dyb·buk·im (dĭ-bŏŏk'ĭm, dē'bōō-kēm')
In Jewish folklore, the wandering soul of a dead person that enters the body of a living person and controls his or her behavior.

[Yiddish dibek, from Hebrew dibbūq, probably from dābaq, to cling; see dbq in Semitic roots.]
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dybbuk 
1903, "malevolent spirit of a dead person possessing the body of a living one," from Jewish folklore, from Heb. dibbuk, from dabak "to cling, cleave to."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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