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farfetch

noun
/ˈfɑː(ɹ)fɛt͡ʃ/

Etymology

From far + fetch.

  1. derived from *ped-✻ — “to step, walk; to fall, stumble”
  2. inherited from *fatōną✻
  3. inherited from feċċan
  4. inherited from fecchen — “to get and bring back, fetch; to come for, get and take away; to steal; to carry away to kill; to search for; to obtain, procure”
  5. compounded as farfetch — “far + fetch”

Definitions

  1. Anything brought from afar, or brought about with studious care

    Anything brought from afar, or brought about with studious care; a deep stratagem.

    • But Jesuits have deeper reaches In all their politic far-fetches

  2. Long distance

    • "`Come!' I said, for I thought she wandered. `Eat of the food and let us be gone. It is a far fetch from here to Akatan.'

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA