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fetish
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Word definitions for fetish in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"material object regarded with awe as having mysterious powers or being the representative of a deity that may be worshipped through it," 1610s, fatisso , from Portuguese feitiço "charm, sorcery, allurement," noun use of an adjective meaning "artificial."\n ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Something which is believed to possess, contain, or cause spiritual or magical powers; an amulet or a talisman. (from the early 17th c.) 2 Something sexual or nonsexual, such as an object or a part of the body, which arouses sexual desire or is necessary ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fetich \Fe"tich\, Fetish \Fe"tish\, n.[F. f['e]tiche, from Pg. feiti?o, adj., n., sorcery, charm, fr. L. facticius made by art, artifical, factitious. See Factitious .] A material object supposed among certain African tribes to represent in such a ...
Usage examples of fetish.
There is a great deal in this fetish business, Baas, that good Christians like you and I do not understand.
Maybe there was something within the fetish that made blackballed Bone Gnawers want to kill the homeless.
One hand clasped the wrist of the other, crushing the coypu hair fetish.
Pandaras touched the coypu hair fetish, which he wore on his upper arm, over his shirt.
He t privacy fetish about keeping his door closed at all t so no one could see a former premier danseur helpless on his bed.
As he rejoined the central trail the second time, his flashlight caught a glimpse of color: there, on a high shelf of dripstone, was a collection of Indian fetishes, left hundreds of years before.
I have a hairbrush fetish and you have a ravishing bottom, why would I think that?
And whenever we have been furnished a fetish, and have been taught to believe in it, and love it and worship it, and refrain from examining it, there is no evidence, howsoever clear and strong, that can persuade us to withdraw from it our loyalty and our devotion.
I was some kind of nympho with a costume fetish, that my job was laughable, that Isobel and I were Thickie and Thickier, barely able to keep up with their not-so-clever quips and implications.
The mushrooms, the fetishes, the wool and the wine, the mascara jars, the poppies, the crickets, the poison arrows, the bravura helixes of juicy smoke all spun like the stars: onward, outward, inward, backward, sideways, upside down, and forever.
Ailim frowned, trying to determine how dangerous the fetish and Menzie could be.
Parties, sacrificing their very reason for existence to the absurd fetish of abstract unity.
Then it was executives, whose gold watch chains, adangle with tiny email-boxes, phones, torches, snuffboxes, and other fetishes, curved round the dark waistcoats they wore to deemphasize their bellies.
All the inglesi he knew seemed to have a fetish about playing cricket.
It was Simon Kimberlin, the rubber fetish wear designer, who first drew my attention to it.