fetched

[ fech-id, fecht ]

adjective

, South Midland U.S.

1. damned:

   Jim beat up every fetched one of them.

Other Words From

• un·fetched adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of fetched¹

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

Example Sentences

While some suspect alien interference, the methods the Nazca used probably aren’t quite so far-fetched.

From Popular-Science

While it seems far-fetched right now, it’s exciting to see how SEO, NLP, and AI will evolve together.

From Search Engine Watch

Back during the Cold War, when it did not seem at all far-fetched that a Soviet nuclear bomb might ruin your day, Glenn Easton’s mother-in-law looked into building a fallout shelter in her backyard.

From Washington Post

Yet it doesn’t sound so far-fetched to many top politicians and experts observing the run-up to the election.

From Fortune

The premise of the lawsuits may seem far-fetched—it’s hard to see how Netflix is accessing municipal infrastructure anymore than you are with your home Internet connection—but the money at stake is serious.

From Fortune

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

From The Daily Beast

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.

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg