fetching

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
/ˈfɛt͡ʃ.ɪŋ/    /ˈfɛt͡ʃ.ɪŋ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
动词 v.
  1. present participle and gerund of fetch form-of,gerund,participle,present
    — 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.
形容词 adj.
  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.

词形变化

more fetching comparative most fetching superlative fetchings plural

词源

词源 1
From fetch + -ing.
词源 2
From Middle English fetchynge, fecchynge, faching, fettynge, equivalent to fetch + -ing.
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