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Fitch vs Fotch - What's the difference?

fitch | fotch |

As a noun fitch

is the (european polecat), mustela putorius or fitch can be (obsolete).

As a verb fotch is

fetch.

fitch

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(fitches)
  • The (European polecat), Mustela putorius .
  • The skin of the polecat

    • Etymology 2

    See vetch.

    Noun

  • (obsolete)
    • (Webster 1913)

    fotch

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • fetch
  • * {{quote-book, year=1871, author=John William De Forest, title=Overland, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="I'll fotch her up," volunteered Texas, who had a hyena's hankering after dead bodies. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1901, author=Winston Churchill, title=The Crisis, Complete, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I'll fotch him, Miss Jinny. }}
  • fetched
  • * {{quote-book, year=1936-1938, author=Work Projects Administration, title=Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=My granmammy done hear me bawlin an go fotch me to my mammy's house. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1900, author=Louise Manly, title=Southern Literature From 1579-1895, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Brer Rabbit come prancin' 'long twel he spy de Tar-Baby, en den he fotch up on his behine legs like he wuz 'stonished. }}