Talk:fetch

'Fetch', in slang, means 'Beauty', right?

So, when I see something so beautiful, I can say; that is so fetch.

Am I correct? — This comment was unsigned.

I've never heard it used that way, before now. The adjective fetching is the normal construction. --Connel MacKenzie 16:12, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

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Rfv-sense: "a type of guardian angel, guardian spirit, totemic being or tutelary entity" --EncycloPetey 04:32, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

Oddly, I know of this use and have actually used it this way, but I have no idea where I learned it. It carries more of the sense of a ghost or spook; a puppy-like poltergeist. - Amgine/^talk 02:30, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

RFV failed, sense removed. Note that we have a separate, non-RFV'd sense for the use that Amgine mentions. —Ruakh_TALK 23:30, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

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fetch

Rfv-sense: (slang) attractive, popular

I've come across this exactly once: in the movie Mean Girls, where it is a slang term invented by one of the characters which doesn't catch on. Google Books results for "so fetch", "totally fetch", "fetch outfit" etc find nothing useful, and the only relevant Google Groups hits are discussing the movie Mean Girls. So, is this just fancruft, or has someone made fetch happen? Smurrayinchester (talk) 12:46, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

• RFV failed. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 17:15, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

unclear sense in Kipling's "In the Rukh"

"Then came the Rains with a roar, and the rukh was blotted out in fetch after fetch of warm mist, and the broad leaves drummed the night through under the big drops..." Equinox ◑ 18:14, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

Etymology

The Proto-Germanic sub-root [2] for this lexeme cannot be assumed here, nor is there a clear connection[3] with Middle English fatian (“seize, grasp”); but compare Irish faigh (“to acquire, to fetch, to get, to receive”)[6] and[3] Gaelic faotainn (getting). So, should the source be Proto-Celtic, it would be related to those cognates[7].

[0] means 'Absolutely not; [1] means 'Exceedingly unlikely'; [2] means 'Very dubious'; [3] means 'Questionable'; [4] means 'Possible'; [5] means 'Probable'; [6] means 'Likely'; [7] means 'Most Likely' or *Unattested; [8] means 'Attested'; [9] means 'Obvious' - only used for close matches within the same language or dialect, at linkable periods. 18:01 11 October 2019

Andrew (talk)

mean girls: fetch as adjective ?

see the subject Thewriter006 (talk) 19:23, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

In that film it's a slang word one of them is trying and failing to popularise. It doesn't have independent currency outside the film, as far as I know. Equinox ◑ 20:51, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

is that a fancy way of saying 'stop trying to make "fetch" happen; it's NOT going to happen!' @User:Equinox Thewriter006 (talk) 12:19, 17 May 2022 (UTC)

Yes. At least it's not gonna happen on Wiktionary just because it was mentioned in one movie. Equinox ◑ 08:08, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

ok thanks. lame you didn't use the line though lol Thewriter006 (talk) 21:10, 23 October 2022 (UTC)