fetish
名词 n.
英 /ˈfɛt.ɪʃ/|/ˈfiː.tɪʃ/
美 /ˈfɛt.ɪʃ/|/ˈfiː.tɪʃ/
英文释义
名词 n.
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Something which is believed to possess, contain, or cause spiritual or magical powers; an amulet or a talisman.
— The idols and fetishes were being dressed up and whitewashed, receiving sacrifices.
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A figure representing the spirit of a deity, human, or animal; an idol or voodoo doll.
— This was the trunk of a large wooden doll […] now entirely defaced by a long career of vicarious suffering. […] The last nail had been driven in with a fiercer stroke than usual, for the Fetish on that occasion represented aunt Glegg
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Sexual fixation to or arousal at something abnormally sexual or nonsexual, such as an object or a nonsexual part of the body.
— I know a guy who has a foot fetish.
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An irrational or abnormal preoccupation or fixation on some object or activity; an obsession.
— He has been talking about the same topic for hours on end, I suspect he may have a fetish
- A recurrent theme of a specific thing.
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Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti
Proto-Italic *θakjō
Proto-Italic *fakjō
Latin faciō
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tos
Latin -tus
Latin factus
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -īcus
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -īcius
Latin factīcius
Portuguese feitiçobor.
French fétichebor.
English fetish
Borrowed from French fétiche, from Portuguese feitiço, from Latin factīcius (“artificial”). Doublet of factitious.
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti
Proto-Italic *θakjō
Proto-Italic *fakjō
Latin faciō
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tos
Latin -tus
Latin factus
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -īcus
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -īcius
Latin factīcius
Portuguese feitiçobor.
French fétichebor.
English fetish
Borrowed from French fétiche, from Portuguese feitiço, from Latin factīcius (“artificial”). Doublet of factitious.
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