fetching

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
17
Words With Friends
19
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈfɛt͡ʃ.ɪŋ/
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/ˈfɛt͡ʃ.ɪŋ/ · /fɛːtʃ.ɪŋ(ɡ)/ · /fɛtʃːɪŋ(ɡ)/

Definition of fetching

3 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  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.”
    ““The men in this town have a serious case of pussy affluenza,” says Amy Watanabe, 28, the fetching, tattooed owner of Sake Bar Satsko, a lively izakaya in New York’s East Village.”
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adj

  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.”
    ““The men in this town have a serious case of pussy affluenza,” says Amy Watanabe, 28, the fetching, tattooed owner of Sake Bar Satsko, a lively izakaya in New York’s East Village.”

verb

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)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.”

noun

  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.”

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Etymology

From fetch + -ing.

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