fetching
pronunciation
How to pronounce fetching in British English:
UK [ˈfetʃɪŋ]
How to pronounce fetching in American English:
US [ˈfɛtʃɪŋ]
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- Adjective:
- very attractive; capturing interest
Word Origin
- fetching (adj.)
- 1580s, "crafty, scheming," present participle adjective from fetch (v.), in one of its extended senses, here "bring or draw into a desired relation or condition." The sense of "alluring, fascinating" is by 1880, from the verb in the sense "allure, attract, fascinate" (c. 1600). Related: Fetchingly.
Example
- 1. Fetching you and bringing you back to me .
- 2. He had asked his wife for a drink but his daughter insisted on fetching it .
- 3. When markets are jumpy and cash is needed , sovereign-wealth funds have some very fetching characteristics .
- 4. They 'll be looking not just for a fetching smile or that spark of chemistry , but also for the promise of money and connections .
- 5. All summer long , despite chores at home weeding and watering the garden , cutting wood and fetching water-reuben kept to his secret task .