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Fetching

//ˈfɛt͡ʃ.ɪŋ// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Attractive; pleasant to regard.

    "Nurse Cramer had a cute nose and a radiant, blooming complexion dotted with fetching sprays of adorable freckles that Yossarian detested."

Adjective
  1. 1
    very attractive; capturing interest wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    The act by which something is fetched.

    "These lumpers were also in the habit of inducing their men during the week to send to their pay-house for fetchings of drink, besides the money they were compelled to spend on Saturday night."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of fetch form-of, gerund, participle, present

    "She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From fetch + -ing.

Etymology 2

From fetch + -ing.

Etymology 3

From Middle English fetchynge, fecchynge, faching, fettynge, equivalent to fetch + -ing.

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