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genie
genie /ˈdʒiːni/ noun [countable]
 Date: 1600-1700
 Language: French
 Origin: génie, from Arabic jinniy
1. a magical creature in old Arabian stories that will do what you want when you call it
2. let the genie out of the bottle to do something that has a great and often bad effect on a situation, which can then never return to its previous state