fetching

Etymology 1

From fetch + -ing.

adj

1. Attractive; pleasant to regard.
   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. 2000, Bill Bryson, chapter 1, in In a Sunburned Country, page 11
   “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. 2015, Nancy Jo Sales, “Tinder and the Dawn of the “Dating Apocalypse””, in Vanity Fair

verb

1. present 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. 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 6, in Mr. Pratt's Patients

Etymology 2

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

noun

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. 1834, Evidence on drunkenness: presented to the House of Commons