fetish vs hoodoo what difference

what is difference between fetish and hoodoo

English

Alternative forms

• fetich (dated [18th c.–present])

Etymology

Borrowed from French fétiche, from Portuguese feitiço, from Latin factīcius (“artificial”). Doublet of factitious.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: fĕtʹĭsh, fēʹtĭsh, IPA^(key): /ˈfɛt.ɪʃ/, /ˈfiː.tɪʃ/

Noun

fetish (plural fetishes)

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. Sexual attraction to or arousal at something abnormally sexual or nonsexual, such as an object or a nonsexual part of the body. [from the early 19th c.]

   Synonym: paraphilia
3. An irrational, or abnormal fixation or preoccupation; an obsession. [from the 19th c.]
   • 1933, George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London (Harvest / Harcourt paperback edition), chapter XXII, page 117:

     We have a feeling that it must be “honest” work, because it is hard and disagreeable, and we have made a sort of fetish of manual work.

Derived terms

• fet
• fetishism
• fetishist
• fetishistic
• fetishize
• fetishlike
• fetishwear

Translations

Anagrams

• feiths, thiefs

English

Etymology

Apparently an alteration of voodoo.

Noun

hoodoo (countable and uncountable, plural hoodoos)

1. (chiefly US) A practitioner of voodoo.
2. (chiefly US) Supernatural bad luck, or something or someone believed to bring bad luck.
3. (geology) A tall thin spire of rock that protrudes from the bottom of arid basins and badlands.
   • 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster 2014, p. 71:

     It was even larger than the mirage made it look—a dozen miles across and a thousand feet deep, with fins and towers and hoodoos like observation posts, mesas and minor buttes, springs flowing brightly in the red rock.

Synonyms

• (spire of rock): tent rock, fairy chimney, earth pyramid

Translations

Verb

hoodoo (third-person singular simple present hoodoos, present participle hoodooing, simple past and past participle hoodooed)

1. (transitive) To jinx; to bring bad luck or misfortune to.

References

• “hoodoo”, Bill Casselman

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