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fetishy

adj

Etymology

From fetish + -y.

  1. derived from factīcius
  2. derived from feitiço
  3. borrowed from fétiche
  4. suffixed as fetishy — “fetish + y”

Definitions

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a fetish.

    • While plenty of people called the Coca-Cola headquarters to complain about New Coke’s taste, I’ll bet no one called to complain about the visionary in the fetishy eyeglasses in charge of the situation.
    • The traditional female silhouettes now flicker over fetishy leather boots. When a woman's face appears it is that of Bond's torturer, not his love interest.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fetishy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA