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Meanings of fetish in English
Synonyms
Examples for "voodoo"
Examples for "voodoo"
1
We traveled outside New York and visited witches and voodoo people too.
2
This morning, their area of expertise had seemed as exotic as voodoo.
3
Had I incurred some sort of vacation voodoo I wasn't aware of?
4
And Madame Delacroix is one of the best voodoo witches there is.
5
He's still grinning, making some kind of voodoo symbol with his hands.
1
The priests would tell the people that juju had eaten the men.
2
I think you're using some kind of secret fairy juju on me.
3
They believed it was a powerful juju, to ward off evil spirits.
4
But the juju had been working on this family all along.
5
The Ibo tribe and the Aros pray to the juju god.
1
She's workin' some of that hoodoo on us, is what I think.
2
The hoodoo busted, and everything that arrived was for William C. Howland.
3
I want to gag Happy; he's working his hoodoo on us again.
4
If you're lookin' for that hoodoo bitch, that's where you'll find her.
5
Souness was very keen to sign a Catholic and lay the hoodoo.
1
No more curious fetich can be found in the history of folk-lore.
2
The thing was manifestly absurd-theHebrew fetich was dead-dead as Mumbo Jumbo.
3
The people must have a fetich, either a man or a doctrine.
4
Is it not strange, then, that we still believe in fetich worship?
5
Once more he was the savage transported in the presence of his fetich.
Usage of fetish in English
1
With him, sincerity in art was a fetish; in life, a superfluity.
2
Hence the symbolic use of leather-primitiveanimal hide-forwhips and fetish clothing.
3
On the salvage of a fetish than the winning of the fight.
4
For a couple of years there, I had a major blimp fetish.
5
She picked up a bear fetish-itsright paw raised, miniature claws exposed.
6
Harmless, with an unnatural fetish for locks, yet obsessed with his wine.
7
It is respected, honoured, loved; but it is no longer a fetish.
8
I also thought it was rather pretty for a hideous, fear-invoking fetish.
9
Maybe she was involved with some kind of fetish dungeon or something.
10
Shooting has become a kind of fetish in these parts, Mr. Quatermain.
11
Then from a cautious distance she continued her examination of the fetish.
12
The dethronement of a fetish may give a sounder faith its chance.
13
She has not bowed the knee to our modern fetish of education.
14
Like Oz it appears to have a slight fetish for religious iconography.
15
He bowed again as if saluting a fetish, and again and again.
16
Caleb's secret bondage fetish was not the only shadow on his soul.
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Fetish across language varieties
United Kingdom
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United States of America
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