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FETCHING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does fetching mean?
• FETCHING (adjective)
The adjective FETCHING has 1 sense:
1. very attractive; capturing interest
Familiarity information: FETCHING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Very attractive; capturing interest
Synonyms:
Context example:
a winning personality
Similar:
attractive (pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or charm)
Context examples
“Mr. Rushworth is so long fetching this key!”
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
He whirled over, fetching the ground on his back and side.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Lina saw this and said, “Listen, old Sanna, why are you fetching so much water?” “If you will never repeat it to anyone, I will tell you why.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Jane's solicitude about fetching her own letters had not escaped Emma.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
When there, at her own particular request, for she was impatient to pour forth her thanks to him for fetching her mother, Colonel Brandon was invited to visit her.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
And really his anxiety to be of use in the investigations we have been making, and his real usefulness in extracting, and copying, and fetching, and carrying, have been quite stimulating to us.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It was very fetching to make the girl propose in the course of being reunited, and Martin discovered, bit by bit, other decidedly piquant and fetching ruses.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
There was something horrible in the ferocious energy of Berks’s hitting, every blow fetching a grunt from him as he smashed it in, and after each I gazed at Jim, as I have gazed at a stranded vessel upon the Sussex beach when wave after wave has roared over it, fearing each time that I should find it miserably mangled.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
When she could let her attention take its natural course again, she found the Miss Musgroves just fetching the Navy List (their own navy list, the first that had ever been at Uppercross), and sitting down together to pore over it, with the professed view of finding out the ships that Captain Wentworth had commanded.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
If I had made any difficulty about fetching the key, there might have been some excuse, but I went the very moment she said she wanted it.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
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