Noun

(en noun)

A graven image or representation of anything that is revered, or believed to convey spiritual power.

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* 1911 (The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God) , :

There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Kathmandu, There's a little marble cross below the town; There's a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew, And the Yellow God forever gazes down.

A cultural icon, or especially popular person.

Noun

(es)

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.

I know a guy who has a foot fetish .

(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).