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- verb chiefly UK Alternative spelling of
fetishize .
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Examples
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Then we agreed not to 'fetishise' that moment, "said Nasar.
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Why do we fetishise these things that almost universally make us walk like mad ducks?
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The director another failed artist stumbles upon Ravi's glade and, instinctively grasping that it "contained the essence of the Himalayas … as one glittering bee … might contain an entire season", decides to film that too; yet his first thought is to fetishise the man who made it.
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Why do we fetishise these things that almost universally make us walk like mad ducks?
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At the time I assumed it was simply this urge to fetishise the departed that created a feeling that something vital was missing.
Sky generation is beginning to miss Richard Keys and Andy Gray | Barney Ronay 2011
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They fetishise childbirth, and obsess about all that follows it, in a way that is almost, if not quite, beyond satire, and which makes me feel a bit sick.
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It's not the food that annoys me, it's the people who fetishise it.
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But the Idea of Britain and Britishness is a powerful thing and though we do not, being British, fetishise this, it is open to all.
What is Britishness? 2009
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But the Idea of Britain and Britishness is a powerful thing and though we do not, being British, fetishise this, it is open to all.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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But the Idea of an Independent England and Englishness is a powerful thing and though we do not, being English, fetishise this, it is open to all.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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