Catchy vs Fetching - What's the difference?
catchy | fetching |
Instantly appealing and memorable (of a tune or phrase).
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=June 3
, author=Nathan Rabin
, title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)
Attractive; pleasant to regard.
* 2000 , Bill Bryson, In a Sunburned Country , Chapter 1, page 11:
*, chapter=6
, title= The act by which something is fetched.
* 1834 , Evidence on drunkenness: presented to the House of Commons
As adjectives the difference between catchy and fetching
is that catchy is instantly appealing and memorable (of a tune or phrase) while fetching is attractive; pleasant to regard.As a verb fetching is
.As a noun fetching is
the act by which something is fetched.catchy
English
Adjective
(er)citation, page= , passage=The best of friends become the worst of enemies when Barney makes a hilarious attack ad where he viciously pummels a cardboard cut-out of Homer before special guest star Linda Ronstadt joins the fun to both continue the attack on the helpless Homer stand-in and croon a slanderously accurate, insanely catchy jingle about how “Mr. Plow is a loser/And I think he is a boozer.” }}
fetching
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
Verb
(head)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=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.}}
Noun
(en noun)- 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.