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fetch-and-carry

Syllables: fetch-and-car·ry/ˌfɛt͡ʃ n̩ ˈkɛɹi/UK/ˌfɛt͡ʃ n̩ ˈkæɹi/

fetch-and-carry adjective: gossipy, tale-bearing.

Adjective

fetch-and-carry (not comparable)

  1. (dated) Gossipy, tale-bearing.
    • [H]e declared, he would bequeath Willingham and all its lands to a hospital, ere that fetch and carry tell tale should inherit an acre of it.1818 July 25, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter XII, in Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume IV, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and...

Noun

fetch-and-carry (plural fetch-and-carries)

  1. An act of fetching and carrying.
  2. (figuratively) A person who serves in an overly obedient or subservient manner.

Forms of fetch-and-carry

pluralfetch-and-carries

Origin of fetch-and-carry

From fetch and carry.

Words that rhyme with fetch-and-carry

5 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about fetch-and-carry

What does fetch-and-carry mean?
Fetch-and-carry means gossipy, tale-bearing.
What part of speech is fetch-and-carry?
Fetch-and-carry can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce fetch-and-carry?
Fetch-and-carry is pronounced /ˌfɛt͡ʃ n̩ ˈkæɹi/ (UK).

Words near fetch-and-carry in the dictionary

  1. fetch quest
  2. fetch quests
  3. fetch up
  4. fetch way
  5. fetch-and-carries
  6. fetch-and-carry
  7. fetchable
  8. fetched
  9. fetched a compass
  10. fetched about
  11. fetched and carried

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