English Explanatory Dictionary

fitch

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A polecat, such as the European polecat (Mustela putorius), the striped polecat, steppe polecat, or black-footed polecat of America.
  2. A skin of a polecat.
noun
  1. A kind of twisted open weave in wickerwork.
verb
  1. To use this kind of open weave.
noun
  1. Alternative form of vetch.
name
  1. A surname from Old French.
  2. An unincorporated community in Caswell County, North Carolina, United States.

Word forms

fitch fitches fitching fitched Fidge

Etymology

Shortening of fitchew, or directly borrowed from its antecedent, Middle Dutch vitsche (“polecat”). More at fitchew.

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