Treated or regarded as a fetish; excessively prized or fixated upon.
From 'be-' + 'fetish' + '-ed' (past participle/adjective suffix). 'Fetish' comes from Portuguese 'feitiço' (charm), originally describing West African religious objects, later adapted to mean an excessive attachment to an object.
The word 'befetished' reveals how English speakers once had vocabulary for describing obsessive attachment to objects—like how Victorians might be 'befetished' with porcelain or stamps—before the concept got shortened to just saying 'fetish' for everything from shoes to fonts.
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