Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
far-fetched .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Farfetched.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
far-fetched
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
far + fet (past participle of fette).
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Examples
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But the sence is much altered & the hearers conceit strangly entangled by the figure Metalepsis, which I call the farfet, as when we had rather fetch a word a great way off then to vse one nerer hand to expresse the matter aswel & plainer.
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