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Vinony

fetching

adjective

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈfɛt͡ʃ.ɪŋ/ / /fɛːtʃ.ɪŋ(ɡ)/ / /fɛtʃːɪŋ(ɡ)/

adj

Etymology: From fetch + -ing.

  1. Attractive; pleasant to regard.

    “Nurse Cramer had a cute nose and a radiant, blooming complexion dotted with fetching sprays of adorable freckles that Yossarian detested.”

    “I am not, I regret to say, a discreet and fetching sleeper. Most people when they nod off look as if they could do with a blanket; I look as if I could do with medical attention.”

noun

Etymology: From Middle English fetchynge, fecchynge, faching, fettynge, equivalent to fetch + -ing.

  1. The act by which something is fetched.

    “These lumpers were also in the habit of inducing their men during the week to send to their pay-house for fetchings of drink, besides the money they were compelled to spend on Saturday night.”

verb

Etymology: From fetch + -ing.

  1. present participle and gerund of fetch

    “She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.”