Fetich vs Fetch - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between fetich and fetch

is that fetich is while fetch is the object of fetching; the source and origin of attraction; a force, quality or propensity which is attracting eg, in a given attribute of person, place, object, principle, etc.

As a verb fetch is

to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.

As an adjective fetch is

(slang) attractive, popular.

fetich

English

Noun

(es)

* {{quote-book, year=1893, author=Henryk Sienkiewicz, title=Without Dogma, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=In intimate circles I am called my aunt's fetich , which makes her very angry. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1911, author=Susan Glaspell, title=The Visioning, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=We've made a perfect fetich of loyalty. }}

* 1913 : , A Preface to Politics , pages page 152 (2008 publication)

The one thing that no democrat may assume is that the people are dear good souls, fully competent for their task. The most valuable leaders never assume that. No one, for example, would accuse Karl Marx of disloyalty to workingmen. Yet in 1850 he could write at the demagogues among his friends: “While we draw the attention of the German workman to the undeveloped state of the proletariat in Germany, you flatter the national spirit and the guild prejudices of the German artisans in the grossest manner, a method of procedure without doubt the more popular of the two. Just as the democrats made a sort of fetich of the words, ‘the people,’ so you make one of the word ‘proletariat.’” John Spargo quotes this statement in his “Life.” Marx, we are told, could use phrases like “democratic miasma.” He never seems to have made the mistake of confusing democracy with demolatry.

* {{quote-book, year=1917, author=Edgar Rice Burroughs, title=A Princess of Mars, chapter=1, edition= citation

, passage=However, I am not prone to sensitiveness, and the following of a sense of duty, wherever it may lead, has always been a kind of fetich with me throughout my life; which may account for the honors bestowed upon me by three republics and the decorations and friendships of an old and powerful emperor and several lesser kings, in whose service my sword has been red many a time.}}

* {{quote-book, year=1927, author=Havelock Ellis, title=Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 (of 6), chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Sometimes the odor of the armpit may even become a kind of fetich which is craved for its own sake and in itself suffices to give pleasure. }}

References

* “ fetich]” listed as a variant spelling, in use from the eighteenth century onward, of “[http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50084059 fetish, n.'']”, listed in the '' [2^nd Ed.; 1989

fetch

English

(wikipedia fetch)

Alternative forms

* (l), (l) (dialectal)

Verb

To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.

* Bible, 1 (w) xvii. 11, 12

He called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.

* 1908 , (Kenneth Grahame), (The Wind in the Willows)

When they got home, the Rat made a bright fire in the parlour, and planted the Mole in an arm-chair in front of it, having fetched down a dressing-gown and slippers for him, and told him river stories till supper-time.

To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.

* (1800-1859)

Our native horses were held in small esteem, and fetched low prices.

* , chapter=3

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Yesterday’s fuel , passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).}}

(label) To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.

to fetch headway or sternway

* (George Chapman) (1559-1634)

Meantime flew our ships, and straight we fetched / The siren's isle.

(label) To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.

To take (a breath), to heave (a sigh)

* 1899 , (Joseph Conrad),

The hurt n***** moaned feebly somewhere near by, and then fetched a deep sigh that made me mend my pace away from there.

To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.

* (William Barnes) (1801-1886)

They couldn't fetch the butter in the churn.

(obsolete) To recall from a swoon; to revive; sometimes with to .

* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)

Fetching men again when they swoon.

To reduce; to throw.

* (Robert South) (1634–1716)

The sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground.

To bring to accomplishment; to achieve; to make; to perform, with certain objects.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

I'll fetch a turn about the garden.

* (Robert South) (1634–1716)

He fetches his blow quick and sure.

To make (a pump) draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle.

Derived terms

* fetch away * fetch and carry * fetch a wife * fetch up * prefetch

Noun

(es)
The object of fetching; the source and origin of attraction; a force, quality or propensity which is attracting eg., in a given attribute of person, place, object, principle, etc.

A stratagem by which a thing is indirectly brought to pass, or by which one thing seems intended and another is done; a trick; an artifice.

* 1665 , Robert South, "Jesus of Nazareth proved the true and only promised Messiah", in ''Twelve Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions, Volume 3, 6th Edition, 1727

Every little fetch of wit and criticism.

The apparition of a living person; a wraith; one's double (seeing it is supposed to be a sign that one is fey or fated to die)

* 1921 , Sterling Andrus Leonard, The Atlantic book of modern plays .

but see only the "fetch " or double of one of them, foretelling her death.

* 1844 , (Charles Dickens), (The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit) , Page 236

The very fetch and ghost of Mrs. Gamp.

(computing) The act of fetching data.

a fetch from a cache

Derived terms

* fetch candle

Adjective

(er)
(rfv-sense) (slang) attractive, popular