fitch
noun
the European polecat, Mustela putorius.
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fitch
1 American
[fich]
/ fɪtʃ /
Also
fitchet
noun
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fitches
plural
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the European polecat, Mustela putorius.
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its fur, often dyed to imitate other furs.
Fitch
2
American
[fich]
/ fɪtʃ /
noun
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John, 1743–98, U.S. inventor: pioneer in development of the steamboat.
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(William) Clyde, 1865–1909, U.S. playwright.
fitch
British
/ ˈfɪtʃɪt, fɪtʃ /
noun
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another name for polecat
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the fur of the polecat or ferret
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Etymology
Origin of fitch
1400–50; late Middle English fiche, feche, fuche polecat fur < Middle Dutch fisse, visse, vitsche polecat
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At Céline, in addition to the suede jumpsuit, Phoebe Philo offered slouchy leather pants with a color-block turtleneck and a pair of fur wrap coats, one beaver and the other fitch.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2012
With youth in mind, and to revive a market that dropped 40% in sales between 1947 and 1967, Kaplan branched out into inexpensive furs like mink paw, fitch and squirrel.
From Time Magazine Archive
Later on they found that in some mysterious way a bag of flour, a fitch of bacon, a small bag of salt, and a few other small articles had been taken from the cook tent.
From Bob Hunt in Canada by Orton, George W.
The light or figure is then softened by drawing the end of a flat hog-hair fitch, or a small thin mottler, across each figure, and slightly softening with the badger-hair softener.
They are so nettled therewith that they fitch hither and thither.
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by Gillespie, George
President Nicusor Dan, a pro-European centrist, tried to address people's concerns last weekend after Romania avoided a downgrade of its credit rating by Fitch to "junk", or below investment grade.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
Fitch expects the BOJ to wait until October and then to hike more quickly than markets anticipate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Fitch said the financial restatement increased the two insurers’ related-party loans from 2% to 40% of their portfolios, the highest exposure among life insurers it rates in North America.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
A burgeoning defence startup sector "is not something that is going to stop a potential Russian attack", Milan Trajkovic, an analyst at Fitch, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
However, in 1964 two more Americans, J. W. Cronin and Val Fitch, discovered that even the CP symmetry was not obeyed in the decay of certain particles called K-mesons.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
The ornaments are usually done with stencil patterns, and the lines are done with straight edges and lining fitches.
From Paper and Printing Recipes A Handy Volume of Practical Recipes, Concerning the Every-Day Business of Stationers, Printers, Binders, and the Kindred Trades by Ford, J. Sawtelle
Mink, now, fitches a fancy price when you can catch 'em.
From Baby Pitcher's Trials Little Pitcher Stories by May, Carrie L.
"Fitches are not threshed with a thresher, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod."
From Heathen Slaves and Christian Rulers by Andrew, Elizabeth Wheeler
For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah by Maclaren, Alexander
When lie hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah by Maclaren, Alexander
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