Inflected forms: pl. dyb·buks or dyb·buk·im (d-bkm, db-km) In Jewish folklore, the wandering soul of a dead person that enters the body of a living person and controls his or her behavior.
ETYMOLOGY:
Yiddish dibek, from Hebrew dibbq, probably from dbaq, to cling. See dbq in Appendix II.
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