A state of proper physical condition; kilter or trim. / One's mental state; spirits. / Sand used to line a furnace. / (Tyneside, Cumbria) A person's mood or state, often assuming the worst.

(especially Northern England) To sort out, to fix, to mend, to repair. / (intransitive) To make preparations; to put things in order; to do trifling business.

(linguistics) An insistence that the only valid source of illustrative examples of words or language constructs is from the corpus (existing body of literature) of the language

To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get. / To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for. / (nautical) To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.

(also figuratively) An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance. / (computing, specifically) An act of fetching data.

(Utah) Minced oath for fuck

(originally Ireland, dialectal) The apparition of a living person; a person's double, the sight of which is supposedly a sign that they are fated to die soon, a doppelganger; a wraith (“a person's likeness seen just after their death; a ghost, a spectre”).

(obsolete) Brought from far away. / Not likely; difficult to believe.

simple past tense and past participle of fetch

plural of fetus