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fetched

[ fech-id, fecht ]

adjective

, South Midland U.S.
  1. damned:

    Jim beat up every fetched one of them.



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  • un·fetched adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of fetched1

1850–55, Americanism; apparently fetch 1 + -ed 2

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Example Sentences

Fortunes reversed and what was far-fetched yesterday was suddenly closer to fact.

When he first pitched it to me for The Dark Knight, I liked the thematic idea, but I found it possibly a little far-fetched.

One of them fetched Manuel, nicknamed Barba (Spanish for beard), who was, of course, clean shaven.

It is pressed deep inside, then more is fetched to mash on top.

But, in the case of the border kids, it turns out that those worries about diseases were not so far-fetched after all.

Ned reached home about breakfast time, and "fetched up" at the back door, with a decidedly guilty countenance.

Mis' Calvert, she saw you in a lane, or somethin', and fetched you back to that Baltimore city where the both of you lived.

Diaretta ain't old enough yet to fall into line, and the boys were let off soon as they went to work and fetched in money.

Queeker fetched a long deep-drawn sigh at this point, the agony of intense composition being for a moment relaxed.

Then she bade Gaston set wine for them, and when it was fetched the three of them drank in brooding, gloomy silence.

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