Trinket vs Fetish - What's the difference?
trinket | fetish |
A small showy ornament or piece of jewelry
A thing of little value; a trifle; a toy.
(nautical) A three-cornered sail formerly carried on a ship's foremast, probably on a lateen yard.
* Hakluyt
(obsolete) A knife; a cutting tool.
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).
As nouns the difference between trinket and fetish
is that trinket is a small showy ornament or piece of jewelry while fetish is something which is believed to possess, contain, or cause spiritual or magical powers; an amulet or a talisman.As a verb trinket
is to give trinkets; to court favour.trinket
English
Noun
(en noun)- That little trinket around her neck must have cost a bundle.
- It's only a little trinket , but it reminds her of him.
- Sailing always with the sheets of mainsail and trinket warily in our hands.
- (Tusser)
Synonyms
* (small ornament) See also: * (item of little value) See also:Anagrams
* ----fetish
English
(wikipedia fetish)Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(es)- I know a guy who has a foot fetish .