Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Very attractive; charming.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Alluring; attractive; fascinating; taking; “killing”: as, an awfully fetching bonnet.
  • Crafty; tricky: as, “the fetching practice of prelates,”

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective drawing favorable attention.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Attractive; pleasant to regard.
  • verb Present participle of fetch.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective very attractive; capturing interest

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Examples

  • I can get the obedience down, then let someone else work their magic as far as the force fetching is concerned.

    Force Fetch: Are You (Am I) Ready for the Challenge? 2009

  • In case my spate of reviews should be giving the impression that I'm living (as my ex said not long after we parted) entirely for pleasure, I thought I'd bring you all up to date with what I'm doing when not swanning the theatres of New York in fetching outfits and neo-vintage hats.

    Still Writing deliasherman 2010

  • I can get the obedience down, then let someone else work their magic as far as the force fetching is concerned.

    Force Fetch: Are You (Am I) Ready for the Challenge? 2009

  • In case my spate of reviews should be giving the impression that I'm living (as my ex said not long after we parted) entirely for pleasure, I thought I'd bring you all up to date with what I'm doing when not swanning the theatres of New York in fetching outfits and neo-vintage hats.

    Still Writing deliasherman 2010

  • Intelligent pre-fetching is a fine idea for boosting performance.

    Abandon Vista. We don’t need another desktop OS « Squash 2006

  • Wind and sea had sprung up, and the Dazzler was rolling and tossing and now and again fetching up on her anchor-chain with a savage jerk.

    Chapter XIV 1902

  • The power of Christ, in fetching money out of a fish's mouth for this purpose.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721

  • God had both ways altered the course of nature, both in fetching streams out of the rock and turning streams into rock, v. 15.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721

  • The trading was broken into several pieces, with the calls fetching about $2.31 and the puts some $1.49, according to optionMONSTER's tracking programs.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page optionMONSTER 2010

  • But as NASA planners look hard for the billions of dollars for a mission to return a few ounces of rock from Mars, the notion of fetching supertanker quantities from even-farther-out Titan seems completely absurd.

    Dr. Philip Neches: The Gulf Oil Spill: What Peak Oil Looks Like 2010

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  • Even more old-fashioned than handsome.

    September 16, 2007

  • What a handsome word. ;-)

    September 16, 2007

  • a delicate implication of sex appeal.

    June 30, 2009

  • Like felching, but more traditional.

    June 30, 2009

  • Unfortunate Sound-Alikes

    June 30, 2009