fetching
adjetivoverbosubstantivoatestado nos diálogos
- Estados Unidos//ˈfɛt͡ʃ.ɪŋ//
Attractive; pleasant to regard.
adjetivo
- 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.
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.
“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.
Etimologia
From fetch + -ing.
verbo
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Também uma forma de fetchpresent 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.
substantivo
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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.
Etimologia
From Middle English fetchynge, fecchynge, faching, fettynge, equivalent to fetch + -ing.
Formas
- plural
- fetchings
- comparativo
- more fetching
- superlativo
- most fetching