fetching

Attractive; pleasant to regard.

Adjective

  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. - 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New...
    • I am not, I regret to say, a discreet and fetching sleeper. Most people when they nod off look as if they could do with a blanket; I look as if I could do with medical attention. - 2000, Bill Bryson, chapter 1, in In a...
    • “The men in this town have a serious case of pussy affluenza,” says Amy Watanabe, 28, the fetching, tattooed owner of Sake Bar Satsko, a lively izakaya in New York’s East Village. - 2015, Nancy Jo Sales, “Tinder and the...

    Synonyms: alluring appealing appetizing attracting attractive bewitching captivating charming coying desirable enchanting engaging enticing enticive exciting fascinating fetching heart-throbbing illecebrous inviting prepossessing seducing seductive taking

Origin

From fetch + -ing.

Forms

more fetching most fetching

Derived

fetchingly fetchingness unfetching

Noun

  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. - 1834, Evidence on...

Origin

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

Forms

fetchings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of fetch
    • 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. - 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter...