Fetish vs Spanko - What's the difference?
fetish | spanko |
Something which is believed to possess, contain, or cause spiritual or magical powers; an amulet or a talisman.
Something sexual or nonsexual, such as an object or a part of the body, which arouses sexual desire or is necessary for one to reach full sexual satisfaction.
(US) An irrational, or abnormal fixation or preoccupation.
* 1933': ''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.'' -- George Orwell, ''Down and Out in Paris and London , Ch. XXII, pg. 117 (Harvest / Harcourt paperback edition).
(slang) A person with a fetish for spanking, usually but not exclusively sexual
*{{quote-newsgroup, 1995, February 15, BlueEyeBoy, Re: What is going *ON* here?, alt.sex.spanking
, passage=I guess the second is the behaviour that makes us spankos .}}
*{{quote-book, 2007, Susan Kohler, Another Batch of Warm Buns
, passage=She was no fool; this man was seriously hot, a spanko', potentially a great ' spanko and really nice}}
As nouns the difference between fetish and spanko
is that fetish is something which is believed to possess, contain, or cause spiritual or magical powers; an amulet or a talisman while spanko is a person with a fetish for spanking, usually but not exclusively sexual.fetish
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* (l)Noun
(es)- I know a guy who has a foot fetish .
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