Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Archaic The Old World polecat or its fur.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The polecat or foulmart, Putorius vulgaris or P. fœtidus. See polecat.
- n. The fur of the polecat, formerly known as the fitchew, later shortened to fitch. See fitch, 2.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete polecat
Etymologies
- Compare Old French fisseau. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English ficheux, possibly from Walloon ficheau, diminutive of Middle Dutch vitsche, visse. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“To be a dog, a mule, a cat, a fitchew, a toad, a lizard, an owl, a puttock, or a herring without a roe, I would not care; but to be Menelaus!”
“CasTis such another fitchew! marry, a perfumed one.”
“The fitchew, 22 nor the soiled23 horse, goes to t”
“He prefers the fitchew ferret as he calls it; that is the sort that are coloured like a polecat.”
“The fitchew, the badger, and the hedgehog have a similarly evil reputation; but the first is rare, the second almost exterminated in many districts; the third -- the poor hedgehog -- is common, and some keepers have a bitter dislike to them.”
“The fitchew nor the soiled horse goes to't with a more riotous appetite.”
“IV. i.150 (473,2) 'Tis such another fitchew! marry, a perfum'd one]”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fitchew’.
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Furriery
Anything to do with the fur trade.
furriery, badger, trap, trapper, beaver, polecat, fitch, fitchew, mink, chinchilla, rabbit, fur and 47 more...
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King Lear
Some less-than-common words, significant themes, or excellent phrases from my favourite play.
moiety, brazed, champain, felicitate, interess, propinquity, betwixt, sith, forevouch, wat'rish, benison, ingraff and 111 more...
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Brave New World
Words gathered while reading Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
penitente, pyrrhonic, ossuary, henry-georgian, kropotkinesque, scopolamine, bokanovsky, semi-moron, hypnopaedia, welfare-tyranny, fretsawyer, theremogene and 85 more...
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Gesundheit!
If you say it juuust so, it sounds like a sneeze.
focaccia, spatula, facetious, hooey, kudzu, syzygy, bivouac, brouhaha, flummox, banshee, bugaboo, chin-up and 68 more...
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