Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The European polecat Mustela putorius or its fur.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The polecat or foulmart, Putorius vulgaris or P. fœtidus. See
polecat . - noun The fur of the polecat, formerly known as the fitchew, later shortened to fitch. See
fitch , 2.
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- noun obsolete
polecat
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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!
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CasTis such another fitchew! marry, a perfumed one.
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The fitchew, 22 nor the soiled23 horse, goes to t
Act IV. Scene VI 1909
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He prefers the fitchew ferret as he calls it; that is the sort that are coloured like a polecat.
The Amateur Poacher Richard Jefferies 1867
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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 Amateur Poacher Richard Jefferies 1867
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"The fitchew nor the soiled horse goes to't with a more riotous appetite.
Brave New World Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 1932
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IV. i.150 (473,2) 'Tis such another fitchew! marry, a perfum'd one]
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Samuel Johnson 1746
bilby commented on the word fitchew
Gesundheit!
July 20, 2021