fetching Definition

fetch
verb fetched, fetching

1. To go and get something, and bring it back.

Example: John fetched help
Example: The dog fetched the bone
Thesaurus: bring, get, obtain, carry, transport, convey.
2. To be sold for (a certain price).

Thesaurus: produce, make, yield, earn, elicit, sell for.
3. informal
To deal someone (a blow, slap, etc).
4. old use
To utter (a sigh or groan).
5. To bring forth (tears or blood).

noun

1. An act of bringing.
2. A trick or dodge.

Idiom: fetch and carry

To act as servant; to perform menial tasks.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon feccan.

Phrasal Verb: fetch up

To arrive; to turn up; to end up.

Phrasal Verb: fetch something up

To vomit (food, etc).

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fetching
adj

1. colloq, jocular
Said of appearance: attractive, charming.
Thesaurus: attractive, charming, alluring, captivating, disarming, pretty, enchanting, beguiling, winsome, enticing, winning, taking; Antonym: repellent.

Derivative: fetchingly
adverb